The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 58
What an Indian wishes to perpetuate must be saved by tongue and ear, by “telling-down,” as were the world’s first histories and poems.
Who acts: tongue · What happens: perpetuate, save, be
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 (tongue), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 saved | obl |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wishes | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wishes | amod |
| 4 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perpetuate | mark |
| 6 | perpetuate | perpetuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wishes | acl |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 saved | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saved | aux:pass |
| 9 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 tongue | case |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saved | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ear | cc |
| 13 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tongue | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 down | case |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 17 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 down | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 telling | punct |
| 19 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saved | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 histories | case |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 histories | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 histories | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 world | case |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 histories | amod |
| 28 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saved | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 poems | cc |
| 30 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 histories | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perpetuate | to-infinitive | tongue and ear not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | must · passive | tongue and ear | What a Indian wishes obl; telling down parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | as the world's first histories and poems; the world nmod:poss; poems conj | tree rules |
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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