The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 37
The name was perhaps suggested by the knife-like shape of the lava ridge on which the pueblo is built.
Who acts: like shape · What happens: suggest, build · To what, where: name, pueblo, lava ridge
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 (like shape), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggested | aux:pass |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 suggested | advmod |
| 5 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 shape | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shape | det |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 like | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 knife | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shape | amod |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ridge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ridge | det |
| 14 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ridge | compound |
| 15 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shape | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 built | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pueblo | det |
| 19 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 built | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 built | aux:pass |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ridge | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past · passive | the like shape of the lava ridge | the name | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | build | present · passive | the pueblo | the lava ridge | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source |
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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