The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 56
An absolutely literal translation would be almost unintelligible to English readers, but I have taken no liberties with the real meaning.
Who acts: literal translation, I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: liberties
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 (literal translation, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 translation | det |
| 2 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 3 literal | advmod |
| 3 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 translation | amod |
| 4 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unintelligible | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 unintelligible | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unintelligible | cop |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 unintelligible | advmod |
| 8 | unintelligible | unintelligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 readers | case |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 readers | amod |
| 11 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unintelligible | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 taken | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 unintelligible | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 liberties | det |
| 18 | liberties | liberty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taken | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 meaning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meaning | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meaning | amod |
| 22 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unintelligible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | a literal translation | to English readers; almost, unintelligible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | I | no liberties | with the real meaning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=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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