The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 53
[3] For they are all devout, if not entirely understanding, members of a Christian church; but keep also much of their prehistoric faiths.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, not understand, keep · To what, where: members, much
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 (people), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 devout | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 [ | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 devout | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 devout | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 devout | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 devout | advmod |
| 8 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 understanding | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 understanding | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 understanding | advmod |
| 12 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 understanding | advmod |
| 13 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 devout | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 members | punct |
| 15 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 understanding | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 church | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 church | amod |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 members | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 keep | cc |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 devout | conj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 faiths | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 faiths | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prehistoric | prehistoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 faiths | amod |
| 28 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 much | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 devout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people | 3 obl; all, devout property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not understand a condition, not said to happen | gerund | people not said here | members of a Christian church | entirely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer member=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | people not said here | much of people's prehistoric faiths | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
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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