The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 8

They are not cities in size, it is true, for the largest (Zuñi) has only fifteen hundred people, and the smallest only about one hundred; but cities they are, nevertheless.

Who acts: people, size, largest · What happens: not be, be, have · To what, where: cities, size, hundred people

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, size, largest), 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 cities	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cities	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cities	advmod
4	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 size	case
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cities	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cities	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 largest	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 largest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 largest	det
14	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 has	nsubj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 Zuñi	punct
16	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 largest	appos
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 Zuñi	punct
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	parataxis
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 hundred	advmod
20	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hundred	compound
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 people	nummod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hundred	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hundred	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 smallest	det
26	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 hundred	nsubj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 hundred	advmod
28	about	about	ADV	_	30 hundred	advmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hundred	compound
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cities	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 cities	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 cities	cc
33	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cities	conj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 are	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cities	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 nevertheless	punct
37	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	33 cities	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cities	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	people	cities but cities	size	one hundred conj	tree rules
2	is	present	size			true property	tree rules
3	have	present	the largest	hundred people			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 8