The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 61

A people less observant, less accurate of speech and of memory, would make a sad failure of this sort of record; but with them it is a wonderful success.

Who acts: people, failure, sort · What happens: make, be, fail, sort · To what, where: sad failure, wonderful success, record

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, failure, sort), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	nsubj
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 observant	amod
4	observant	observant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 accurate	punct
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 accurate	advmod
7	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 speech	case
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accurate	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 memory	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 memory	case
12	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speech	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 people	punct
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 failure	det
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 failure	amod
18	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sort	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 sort	det
21	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 failure	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 record	case
23	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sort	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 success	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 success	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 success	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 success	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 success	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 success	det
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 success	amod
32	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	would	a people and less observant	a sad failure of this sort of record		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Product
2	is a	present	failure	a wonderful success	with people	tree rules
3	fail		this sort of record			nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent
4	sort			record		nom sort «cognition 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 61