The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 26
They are not indolent, but industrious--tilling their farms, tending their stock, and keeping all their affairs in order.
Who acts: wars · What happens: not be, be, till, tend, keep, stock · To what, where: farms, stock, affairs, order
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 indolent | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 indolent | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 indolent | advmod |
| 4 | indolent | indolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 industrious | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 industrious | cc |
| 7 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 indolent | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 tilling | punct |
| 9 | tilling | till | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 industrious | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 farms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tilling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tending | punct |
| 13 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tilling | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tending | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keeping | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 keeping | cc |
| 18 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tilling | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 affairs | det:predet |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keeping | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keeping | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 indolent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | wars = war | indolent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | wars = war not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | till | gerund | wars = war not said here | wars's farms | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tend | gerund | wars = war not said here | wars's stock | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | gerund | wars = war not said here | wars's affairs | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Location | |||
| 6 | stock | wars = war | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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