The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 98
[70] It is quite possible that this “Fish-Animal with a hard, strong skin,” living far to the south, is the alligator.
Who acts: fish, hard strong skin · What happens: be, live · To what, where: alligator
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 (fish, hard strong skin), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 70 | punct |
| 2 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 possible | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 70 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 possible | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 possible | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 possible | advmod |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Animal | mark |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Animal | det |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Animal | punct |
| 11 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Animal | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fish | punct |
| 13 | Animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possible | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skin | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hard | punct |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skin | amod |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Animal | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 skin | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 skin | punct |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 skin | acl |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 south | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 south | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 south | det |
| 26 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 living | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 alligator | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 alligator | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 alligator | det |
| 30 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Animal | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fish | 70 obl; this Fish Animal with a hard strong skin and the alligator advcl; possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | a hard strong skin not said here | to the south | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | fish not said here | the alligator | 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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