The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 1
NEARLY every nation has its folk-lore concerning Jack Frost and his anti-type.
Who acts: nation · What happens: have, concern · To what, where: folk lore
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation), 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 | NEARLY | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 has | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nation | det |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lore | nmod:poss |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Frost | case |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Frost | compound |
| 11 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anti-type | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 anti-type | nmod:poss |
| 14 | anti-type | anti-type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Frost | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every nation | nation's folk lore | concern Jack Frost and his anti-type; nearly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lore=Patient | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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