The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 51
Every custom they have and every belief they own has a reason which to them is all-sufficient; and for each they have a story.
Who acts: customs, belief, reason · What happens: have, own, be · To what, where: custom, belief, reason, story
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 (customs, belief, reason), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 custom | det |
| 2 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 belief | det |
| 7 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 own | nsubj |
| 9 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 belief | acl:relcl |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reason | det |
| 12 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sufficient | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 which | obl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sufficient | cop |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 sufficient | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 19 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reason | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 each | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 have | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | customs = custom | every custom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient | ||||
| 2 | own | present | customs = custom | every belief not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot belief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | every belief | a reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a reason | all, sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | customs = custom | a story | for each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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