The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 93
An Indian telling fairy stories?
To what, where: Indian fairy 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: 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 3 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fairy | compound |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | compound |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stories | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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