The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 5
Of all the aboriginal peoples that remain in North America, none is richer in folk-lore than the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, who are, I believe, next to the largest of the native tribes left in the United States.
Who acts: aboriginal peoples, none, folk lore, I · What happens: remain, be, believe, leave · To what, where: North America, folk lore, native tribes, United States
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 (aboriginal peoples, none, folk lore, I), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 peoples | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 peoples | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peoples | det |
| 4 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peoples | amod |
| 5 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 believe | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 remain | nsubj |
| 7 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 America | case |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 America | compound |
| 10 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 richer | punct |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 richer | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 richer | cop |
| 14 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 peoples | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lore | case |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lore | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 folk | punct |
| 18 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 richer | obl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 Indians | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Indians | det |
| 21 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Indians | compound |
| 22 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 lore | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Mexico | case |
| 24 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mexico | compound |
| 25 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Indians | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 are | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 are | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lore | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peoples | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 believe | nsubj |
| 31 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 largest | punct |
| 33 | next | next | ADV | _ | 36 largest | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 largest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 largest | det |
| 36 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 believe | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 tribes | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 tribes | det |
| 39 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tribes | amod |
| 40 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 largest | obl |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 tribes | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 States | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 States | det |
| 44 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 States | amod |
| 45 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 left | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | all aboriginal peoples | North America | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | none | folk lore than the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | present | folk lore than the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | believe | present | I | of all aboriginal peoples | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | the native tribes not said here | in the United States result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in state=Result |
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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