The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 43
Aside from the numerous sacred dances of the year, their most important occasions, they have various races which call for great skill and endurance, quaint social enjoyments, and games of many kinds, some of which are quite as difficult as chess.
Who acts: important occasions, various races, some, dances · What happens: have, call, be, dance, occasion · To what, where: various races, year · 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 (important occasions, various races, some, dances), 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 | Aside | aside | ADV | _ | 17 have | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 dances | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dances | det |
| 4 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dances | amod |
| 5 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dances | amod |
| 6 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Aside | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dances | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aside | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 occasions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 important | advmod |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 occasions | amod |
| 14 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 occasions | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 races | amod |
| 19 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 call | nsubj |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 races | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 skill | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skill | amod |
| 24 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 endurance | cc |
| 26 | endurance | endurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skill | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 enjoyments | punct |
| 28 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 enjoyments | amod |
| 29 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 enjoyments | amod |
| 30 | enjoyments | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 skill | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 games | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 games | cc |
| 33 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kinds | case |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 kinds | amod |
| 36 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 games | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 difficult | punct |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 difficult | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 some | nmod |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 difficult | cop |
| 42 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 difficult | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 difficult | advmod |
| 44 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 games | parataxis |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 chess | case |
| 46 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 difficult | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | dances's important occasions | various races | occasions = occasion nsubj; games of many kinds parataxis; aside property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | present | various races | for great skill and endurance and quaint social enjoyments | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for skill=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | some | as chess; difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dance | the year | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | occasion | dances = dance | nom occasion «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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