The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 46
Yet, with all this progress in civilization, despite their mental and physical acuteness and their excellent moral qualities, the Tée-wahn are in some things but overgrown children.
Who acts: mental acuteness · What happens: be · To what, where: things
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 (mental acuteness), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 progress | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 progress | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 progress | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 progress | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 progress | det |
| 6 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 civilization | case |
| 8 | civilization | civilization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 progress | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 acuteness | punct |
| 10 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 15 acuteness | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 acuteness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 acuteness | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 physical | cc |
| 14 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mental | conj |
| 15 | acuteness | acuteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 things | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 qualities | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 qualities | nmod:poss |
| 18 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 qualities | amod |
| 19 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 qualities | amod |
| 20 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 acuteness | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wahn | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wahn | det |
| 23 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wahn | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tée | punct |
| 25 | wahn | wahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 acuteness | conj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 things | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 things | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 things | det |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 progress | parataxis |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 children | cc |
| 31 | overgrown | overgrown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 children | amod |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 things | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 progress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | seamstresses's mental acuteness and seamstresses's excellent moral qualities and the Tée wahn | some things but overgrown children | overgrown children conj | 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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