The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 99
Of course, the Pueblos never saw that strange saurian; but they probably heard of it in the earliest days from nomad tribes, and as a great scientist has pointed out, we may always depend upon it that there is a nucleus of truth in all these folk-myths.
Who acts: men, we, nucleus · What happens: not see, hear, point out, depend, be · To what, where: nomad tribes, great scientist
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 (men, we, nucleus), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Pueblos | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pueblos | det |
| 5 | Pueblos | Pueblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 saw | advmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 saurian | mark |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saurian | amod |
| 10 | saurian | saurian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 15 heard | advmod |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 days | det |
| 20 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 days | amod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 tribes | case |
| 23 | nomad | nomad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tribes | compound |
| 24 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pointed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pointed | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 pointed | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 scientist | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 scientist | amod |
| 30 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 pointed | aux |
| 32 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 pointed | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 depend | punct |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 depend | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 depend | aux |
| 37 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 38 depend | advmod |
| 38 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | conj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 depend | obl |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 is | mark |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 is | expl |
| 43 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 depend | advcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 nucleus | det |
| 45 | nucleus | nucleus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 is | nsubj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 truth | case |
| 47 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 nucleus | nmod |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 myths | case |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 myths | det:predet |
| 50 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 53 myths | det |
| 51 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 myths | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 folk | punct |
| 53 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 truth | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | of the Pueblos; saurian property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | men = man | nomad tribes | day | of fish; probably property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Theme from tribe=Source | ||
| 3 | point out | present · perfect · passive | a great scientist | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | depend | may | we | upon fish; always property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | be | present | a nucleus of truth in all folk myths | there | 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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