The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 16
The Pueblos are divided into six tribes, each speaking a distinct language of its own.
Who acts: each · What happens: divide, speak · To what, where: Pueblos, six tribes, distinct language · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pueblos | det |
| 2 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | aux:pass |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tribes | case |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tribes | nummod |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaking | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 speaking | nsubj |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 divided | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 language | det |
| 12 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 language | amod |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 own | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 language | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | present · passive | the Pueblos | six tribes | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | each | a distinct language of language's own | 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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