The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 98
When these boys grow up, they will tell these stories to their sons and grandsons; and so the legends will pass on and on, so long as there shall be a Tée-wahn Indian left in all New Mexico.
Who acts: boys, legends · What happens: grow up, tell, pass on, be, leave · To what, where: stories, sons, New Mexico · 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 (boys, legends), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grow | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grow | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 stories | det |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sons | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grandsons | cc |
| 16 | grandsons | grandson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sons | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pass | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pass | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 pass | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 legends | det |
| 21 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pass | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 pass | aux |
| 23 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 pass | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 on | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 on | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 long | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 pass | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 be | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 be | expl |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 long | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 wahn | det |
| 35 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 wahn | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tée | punct |
| 37 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 be | nsubj |
| 38 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wahn | appos |
| 39 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Indian | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Mexico | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 Mexico | det |
| 42 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Mexico | compound |
| 43 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 left | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present | this boys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | boys = boy | this stories | stories's sons and grandsons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to son=Recipient | |||
| 3 | pass on | future | the legends | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | participle | in all New Mexico result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mexico=Result |
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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