The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 71
They are not required to listen to the stories, being supposed to know them already.
What happens: not require, listen, suppose, know · To what, where: men
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 required | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 required | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 required | advmod |
| 4 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 listen | mark |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 required | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 listen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 supposed | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 supposed | aux:pass |
| 12 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 required | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 supposed | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 know | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not require | present · passive | men = man | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | to the stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | men = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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