The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 54
It is from this wonderful folk-lore of the Tée-wahn that I have learned--after long study of the people, their language, customs, and myths--and taken, unchanged and unembellished, this series of Indian fairy tales.
Who acts: much, I · What happens: be, learn, take, study · To what, where: wonderful folk lore, Tée wahn, people
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 (much, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lore | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lore | cop |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lore | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lore | nsubj |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lore | amod |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wahn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wahn | det |
| 11 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wahn | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tée | punct |
| 13 | wahn | wahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 learned | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 learned | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 learned | aux |
| 17 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 wahn | acl:relcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 study | punct |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 study | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 study | amod |
| 21 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learned | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 study | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 language | punct |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 language | nmod:poss |
| 27 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 customs | punct |
| 29 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 language | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 myths | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 myths | cc |
| 32 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lore | conj |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 taken | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 taken | cc |
| 35 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lore | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 unchanged | punct |
| 37 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 taken | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 unembellished | cc |
| 39 | unembellished | unembellished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 unchanged | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 series | punct |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 series | det |
| 42 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 tales | case |
| 44 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tales | amod |
| 45 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tales | compound |
| 46 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 series | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | much | wonderful folk lore and myths and this series of Indian fairy tales | of the Tée wahn; this nsubj; people's language and customs appos; myths conj; this series of Indian fairy tales conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | present · perfect | I | the Tée wahn | after long study of the people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 3 | take | participle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | study | the people | nom study «act transitive»: of=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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