The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 4
And to-day, if we would seek the place where fairy stories most flourish, we must go, not to the nations whose countless educated minds are now devoted to story-telling for the young, but to peoples who have no books, no magazines, no alphabets--even no pictures.
Who acts: we, fairy stories, story, peoples · What happens: seek, flourish, go, devote, tell, have · To what, where: place, countless educated minds, story, books · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, fairy stories, story, peoples), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seek | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 seek | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | aux |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 flourish | advmod |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flourish | nsubj |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 flourish | amod |
| 16 | flourish | flourish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seek | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nations | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 nations | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nations | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nations | det |
| 25 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | conj |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 minds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 minds | amod |
| 28 | educated | educated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 minds | amod |
| 29 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 devoted | aux:pass |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 devoted | advmod |
| 32 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 nations | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 story | case |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 devoted | obl |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 story | punct |
| 36 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 story | acl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 young | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 young | det |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 telling | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 peoples | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 peoples | cc |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 peoples | case |
| 43 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seek | parataxis |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 have | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 books | det |
| 47 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 have | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 magazines | punct |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 magazines | det |
| 50 | magazines | magazine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 peoples | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 alphabets | punct |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 alphabets | det |
| 53 | alphabets | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 peoples | conj |
| 54 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 57 pictures | punct |
| 55 | even | even | ADV | _ | 57 pictures | advmod |
| 56 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 57 pictures | det |
| 57 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 peoples | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | would | we | the place | day | peoples and no magazines and no alphabets and no pictures parataxis | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||
| 2 | flourish | fairy stories | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | must | we | the nations conj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | devote | present · passive | countless educated minds | now | to story goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to story=Goal | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | story not said here | for the young | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | present | peoples and no magazines and no alphabets and no pictures | no books | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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