The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 8
Here is the story as it is believed by the Tée-wahn, and as it was related to me by one of them.
Who acts: story, Tée wahn, method · What happens: be, believe · To what, where: method, me
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 (story, Tée wahn, method), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 believed | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 believed | aux:pass |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wahn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wahn | det |
| 11 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wahn | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wahn | punct |
| 13 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 believed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 related | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 related | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 related | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 related | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 related | cop |
| 19 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Here | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 related | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 related | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · passive | the Tée wahn | method | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | method | me | by one of men; related 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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