The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 63
The fact that it is told in fixed metrical form--a sort of blank verse--helps the memory.
Who acts: fact · What happens: tell, help, sort · To what, where: fact, fixed metrical form, memory, blank verse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fact), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fact | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 8 | fixed | fixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 9 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 sort | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 verse | case |
| 15 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 verse | amod |
| 16 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 18 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 memory | det |
| 20 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helps | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the fact not said here | fact | fixed metrical form | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | present | the fact | the memory | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | sort | blank verse | 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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