The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 27
The women own the houses and their contents, and do not work outside; and the men control the fields and crops.
Who acts: women, men · What happens: own, not work, control · To what, where: houses, fields
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 (women, men), 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 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 own | nsubj |
| 3 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 houses | det |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 own | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 contents | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 contents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 houses | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 work | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 work | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 work | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 work | advmod |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 own | conj |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 13 work | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 control | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 control | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 control | nsubj |
| 19 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 own | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fields | det |
| 21 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 control | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crops | cc |
| 23 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fields | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | present | the women | the houses and women's contents | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not work | infinitive · do-support | the women not said here | outside property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | control | infinitive | the men | the fields and crops | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
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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