The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 104
The two eldest are very beautiful, and the youngest is not; but you ought to choose her, for beauty does not always reach to the heart.”
Who acts: two, you, beauty · What happens: be, not be, choose, not reach · To what, where: Mole
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, you, beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 two | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youngest | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 youngest | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youngest | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | parataxis |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 youngest | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 is | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 choose | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 choose | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 choose | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 choose | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 choose | mark |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beautiful | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 choose | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reach | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 reach | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 reach | advmod |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 reach | advmod |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 choose | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heart | det |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the two eldest | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | present | the two eldest not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | ought | you | Mole | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not reach | present · do-support | beauty | to the heart; always property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/19/104/