The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 64
BEGINNING A STORY.”]
What happens: begin · To what, where: STORY
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: 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 | BEGINNING | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 STORY | det |
| 3 | STORY | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 BEGINNING | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 BEGINNING | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 BEGINNING | punct |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 BEGINNING | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | a STORY | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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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