The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 24
The Pueblo Indians have for nearly two centuries given no trouble to the European sharers of their domain; but their wars of defense against the savage tribes who surrounded them completely--with the Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, and Utes--lasted until a very few years ago.
Who acts: Pueblo Indians, two centuries, wars, defense · What happens: have, give, surround, last, war · To what, where: trouble, European sharers, savage tribes
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 (Pueblo Indians, two centuries, wars, defense), 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 | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | compound |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 centuries | case |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 centuries | nummod |
| 8 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obl |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 centuries | acl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 trouble | det |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sharers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sharers | det |
| 14 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sharers | amod |
| 15 | sharers | sharer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trouble | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 domain | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 domain | nmod:poss |
| 18 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharers | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wars | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wars | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wars | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 lasted | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 defense | case |
| 24 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wars | nmod |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 tribes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tribes | det |
| 27 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tribes | amod |
| 28 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wars | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tribes | acl |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 surrounded | obj |
| 32 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 30 surrounded | advmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 Apaches | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Apaches | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Apaches | det |
| 36 | Apaches | apache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wars | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Navajos | punct |
| 38 | Navajos | Navajos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wars | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Comanches | punct |
| 40 | Comanches | comanche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wars | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Utes | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Utes | cc |
| 43 | Utes | ute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wars | conj |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 lasted | punct |
| 45 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 46 | until | until | ADP | _ | 50 years | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 years | det |
| 48 | very | very | ADV | _ | 49 few | advmod |
| 49 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 years | amod |
| 50 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 lasted | obl |
| 51 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 50 years | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Pueblo Indians | century | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | two centuries not said here | no trouble | the European sharers of Indians's domain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme to sharer=Recipient | |||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | the savage tribes | wars = war obj; completely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | last | past | Indians's wars of defense against the savage tribes Navajos and the Apaches and Comanches and Utes | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | war | defense | against the savage tribes | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent against=obl |
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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