The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 7
They retain many customs long extinct among their kindred, and have some of which no trace is to be found elsewhere.
Who acts: towns · What happens: retain, have, find · To what, where: many customs, some, trace
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 (towns), 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 | 2 retain | nsubj |
| 2 | retain | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 customs | amod |
| 4 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 retain | obj |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 retain | xcomp |
| 6 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 kindred | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 9 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 extinct | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 retain | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 found | obl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 trace | det |
| 17 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 some | acl |
| 22 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 21 found | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 retain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | present | towns = town | many customs | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | towns = town not said here | some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | no trace | which obl; elsewhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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