The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 10
Each has its governor, its congress, its sheriffs, war-captains, and other officials who are elected annually; its laws, unwritten but unalterable, which are more respected and better enforced than the laws of any American community; its permanent and very comfortable houses, and its broad fields, confirmed first by Spain and later by patents of the United States.
Who acts: Each · What happens: have, elect, be, enforce, confirm, patent · To what, where: governor, other officials, permanent houses, United States
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 governor | nmod:poss |
| 4 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 congress | punct |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 congress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | congress | congress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 governor | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sheriffs | punct |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sheriffs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sheriffs | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 governor | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 captains | punct |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 captains | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 war | punct |
| 14 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sheriffs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 elected | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 elected | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 officials | amod |
| 18 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 elected | aux:pass |
| 21 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 has | conj |
| 22 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 21 elected | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 unwritten | punct |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 laws | nmod:poss |
| 25 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 unwritten | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unwritten | punct |
| 27 | unwritten | unwritten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | parataxis |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 unalterable | cc |
| 29 | unalterable | unalterable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 unwritten | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 respected | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 respected | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 respected | cop |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 respected | advmod |
| 34 | respected | respected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 unwritten | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 enforced | cc |
| 36 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 enforced | advmod |
| 37 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 respected | conj |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 laws | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 laws | det |
| 40 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 enforced | obl:agent |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 community | case |
| 42 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 community | det |
| 43 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 community | amod |
| 44 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 laws | nmod |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 houses | punct |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 houses | nmod:poss |
| 47 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 houses | amod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 comfortable | cc |
| 49 | very | very | ADV | _ | 50 comfortable | advmod |
| 50 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 permanent | conj |
| 51 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | parataxis |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 fields | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 fields | cc |
| 54 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 fields | nmod:poss |
| 55 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 fields | amod |
| 56 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 houses | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 confirmed | punct |
| 58 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 houses | acl |
| 59 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 58 confirmed | advmod |
| 60 | by | by | ADP | _ | 61 Spain | case |
| 61 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 confirmed | obl |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 later | cc |
| 63 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 58 confirmed | advmod |
| 64 | by | by | ADP | _ | 65 patents | case |
| 65 | patents | patent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 confirmed | obl |
| 66 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 States | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 States | det |
| 68 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 States | amod |
| 69 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 65 patents | nmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Each | size's governor and size's congress | size's permanent houses and size's broad fields parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Patient | |||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | other officials | who nsubj:pass; annually property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | which nsubj; respected property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enforce | participle | the laws of any American community obl:agent; well property | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | confirm | participle | size's permanent houses and size's broad fields not said here | by Spain; by patents of the United States; first, late property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | patent | the United States | nom patent «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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