The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 4
The whole region has a romantic history, and is important to the scientific student.
Who acts: whole region · What happens: have, be · To what, where: romantic history
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 (whole region), 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 | 3 region | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 region | amod |
| 3 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 history | det |
| 6 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 important | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 important | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 important | cop |
| 11 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 student | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 student | det |
| 14 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 student | amod |
| 15 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 important | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the whole region | a romantic history | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | to the scientific student; important property | tree rules |
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.
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