The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 62
The story goes down from generation to generation, almost without the change of a word.
Who acts: story, word · What happens: go down, change · To what, where: generation
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 (story, word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 generation | case |
| 6 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 generation | case |
| 8 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 change | punct |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 change | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 change | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 change | det |
| 13 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | present | the story | from generation; to generation | the change of a word parataxis; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from generation=Initial_State to generation=Result | |||
| 2 | change | a word | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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