The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 7
They have nineteen “cities” (called pueblos, also) in this Territory, and seven in Arizona; and each has its little outlying colonies.
Who acts: people, nineteen cities, each · What happens: have, call, outlie · To what, where: nineteen cities, pueblos, little outlying colonies · 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 (people, nineteen cities, each), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cities | nummod |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cities | punct |
| 5 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cities | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cities | acl |
| 9 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Territory | punct |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 Territory | advmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 also | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Territory | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Territory | det |
| 15 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seven | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seven | cc |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Territory | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Arizona | case |
| 20 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seven | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 has | cc |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 colonies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 colonies | amod |
| 27 | outlying | outlie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 colonies | amod |
| 28 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 has | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | people | nineteen cities | this Territory parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | nineteen cities not said here | pueblos | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | each | Territory's little outlying colonies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient | ||||
| 4 | outlie | gerund | tree rules |
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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