The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 25
They are valiant fighters for their homes, but prefer any honorable peace.
Who acts: wars · What happens: be, prefer · To what, where: valiant fighters, honorable peace
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 (wars), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fighters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighters | cop |
| 3 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fighters | amod |
| 4 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 homes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 homes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fighters | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prefer | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 prefer | cc |
| 10 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighters | conj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 peace | det |
| 12 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peace | amod |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prefer | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wars = war | valiant fighters | for wars's homes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prefer | present | wars = war not said here | any honorable peace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus |
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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