The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 28
An unhappy home is almost an unknown thing among them; and the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children for parents are extraordinary.
Who acts: unhappy home, parents · What happens: be, respect · To what, where: unknown thing, children
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 (unhappy home, parents), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 home | det |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 home | amod |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | cop |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 thing | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thing | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 affection | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 affection | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 affection | det |
| 14 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 affection | amod |
| 15 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 parents | case |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 affection | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 affection | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 respect | cc |
| 21 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 children | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 children | case |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 respect | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 extraordinary | case |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 extraordinary | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 extraordinary | cop |
| 27 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a unhappy home | a unknown thing | among women = woman; the universal affection of parents for children and respect of children appos; almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | parents | extraordinary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | respect | children | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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