The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 6
All the other Pueblo towns and tribes have changed somewhat in the present era of American occupation; but the Moquis remain very much as they were when the first Spaniard found them--three hundred and fifty years ago.
Who acts: other Pueblo towns, Moquis, towns, first Spaniard · What happens: change, remain, be, find · To what, where: present era, towns
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other Pueblo towns, Moquis, towns, first Spaniard), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 towns | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 towns | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 towns | amod |
| 4 | Pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 towns | compound |
| 5 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tribes | cc |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 towns | conj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | aux |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 era | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 era | det |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 era | amod |
| 14 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 occupation | case |
| 16 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 occupation | amod |
| 17 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 era | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 remain | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 remain | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Moquis | det |
| 21 | Moquis | Moquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | nsubj |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 remain | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 were | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 were | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remain | advcl |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Spaniard | det |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 Spaniard | amod |
| 31 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 were | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | obj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 hundred | punct |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 hundred | compound |
| 36 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 years | nummod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fifty | cc |
| 38 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 hundred | conj |
| 39 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 32 found | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | all other Pueblo towns and tribes | the present era of American occupation | somewhat property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | remain | present | the Moquis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | towns = town | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | the first Spaniard | towns = town | ago property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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