The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 5
From that locality came, centuries ago, part of the people who then founded Isleta, and whose descendants dwell here to this day.
Who acts: people, descendants · What happens: come, found, dwell · To what, where: locality, Isleta
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 (people, descendants), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 locality | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 locality | det |
| 3 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 centuries | punct |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 part | punct |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 founded | nsubj |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 founded | advmod |
| 15 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 founded | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dwell | cc |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dwell | nsubj |
| 21 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 dwell | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | that locality | part of the people conj; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from locality=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | found | past | the people | Isleta | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isleta=Patient | |||
| 3 | dwell | present | descendants | here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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