The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 32
[2] Its population, according to the census taken in 1891, is a little less than twelve hundred.
Who acts: population · What happens: accord, take, be · To what, where: census, 1891
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 (population), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 population | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 population | nmod:poss |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 less | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 census | punct |
| 7 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 census | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 according | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 census | det |
| 10 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 population | appos |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 census | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1891 | case |
| 13 | 1891 | 1891 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 population | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 less | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 less | obl |
| 18 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 less | fixed |
| 20 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 less | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | participle | the census not said here | 1891 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1891=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | town's population | a little obl; twelve hundred obl; less property | tree rules |
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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