The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 17
Isleta, the quaint village where I lived five years, in an Indian house, with Indian neighbors, and under Indian laws, is the southernmost of the pueblos, the next largest of them all, and the chief city of the Tée-wahn tribe.
Who acts: Isleta · What happens: live, be · To what, where: quaint village, Indian house, southernmost, Indian laws
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 (Isleta), 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 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 village | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 4 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 village | amod |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 neighbors | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 neighbors | case |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 neighbors | amod |
| 19 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 southernmost | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 southernmost | cc |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 laws | case |
| 23 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 laws | amod |
| 24 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 southernmost | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laws | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 southernmost | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 southernmost | det |
| 28 | southernmost | southernmost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 pueblos | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pueblos | det |
| 31 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 southernmost | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 largest | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 largest | det |
| 34 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 largest | amod |
| 35 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 pueblos | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 largest | nmod |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 city | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 city | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 city | det |
| 42 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 city | amod |
| 43 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 southernmost | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 tribe | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 tribe | det |
| 46 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 tribe | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tée | punct |
| 48 | wahn | wahn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 tribe | amod |
| 49 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 city | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Isleta | the quaint village | a Indian house | year | with Indian neighbors; I nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |
| 2 | is a | present | the southernmost and the chief city of the Tée wahn tribe | Indian laws | of the pueblos; the chief city of the Tée wahn tribe conj | 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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