The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 60
Upon it depends the preservation of the amusements, the history, the beliefs, the customs, and the laws of their nation.
Who acts: it · What happens: depend, preserve · To what, where: preservation, amusements
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 (it), 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 3 depends | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 preservation | det |
| 5 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 depends | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 amusements | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 amusements | det |
| 8 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 preservation | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 history | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 history | det |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 amusements | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beliefs | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beliefs | det |
| 14 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 amusements | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 customs | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 customs | det |
| 17 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 amusements | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 depends | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 depends | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 laws | det |
| 21 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 and | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nation | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nation | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laws | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | it | the preservation of the amusements and the history and the beliefs and the customs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | preserve | the amusements and the history and the beliefs and the customs | nom preservation «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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