The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 65
Here in Isleta, the quaint pueblo of the Tée-wahn, I became deeply interested not only in the folk-stories themselves, but also in the manner of handing them down.
Who acts: I, manner · What happens: become, hand down · To what, where: manner, stories
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 (I, manner), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Isleta | case |
| 3 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pueblo | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pueblo | det |
| 6 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pueblo | amod |
| 7 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Isleta | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wahn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wahn | det |
| 10 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wahn | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tée | punct |
| 12 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pueblo | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | conj |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 17 interested | advmod |
| 17 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stories | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 stories | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stories | det |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 folk | punct |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 interested | advcl |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 stories | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 manner | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 manner | cc |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 manner | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 manner | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 manner | det |
| 31 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 handing | mark |
| 33 | handing | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 manner | acl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 handing | obj |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 handing | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | I | the manner | interested property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | hand down | gerund | the manner not said here | stories = story | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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