The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 9
And each city, with its fields, is a wee republic--twenty-six of the smallest, and perhaps the oldest, republics in the world; for they were already such when the first European eyes saw America.
Who acts: city, cities, first European eyes · What happens: be, see · To what, where: wee republic, America
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 (city, cities, first European eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 city | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 republic | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fields | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fields | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 city | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 city | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 republic | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 republic | det |
| 11 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 republic | amod |
| 12 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 six | punct |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 six | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 twenty | punct |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 republic | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 smallest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smallest | det |
| 19 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 six | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 oldest | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 oldest | cc |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 oldest | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oldest | det |
| 24 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 smallest | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 republics | punct |
| 26 | republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 six | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 republics | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 such | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 such | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 such | cop |
| 34 | already | already | ADV | _ | 35 such | advmod |
| 35 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 41 saw | advcl |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 saw | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 eyes | det |
| 38 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 eyes | amod |
| 39 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 eyes | amod |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 republic | acl:relcl |
| 42 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 republic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | each city with size's fields | a wee republic | twenty six of the smallest and republics in the world acl:relcl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | cities = city | such property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the first European eyes | America | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer america=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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