The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 3
The Quères pueblos of Acoma and Laguna have an allegorical folk-story, in which the good spirit of heat defeats his icy-hearted rival.
Who acts: Quères pueblos, good spirit · What happens: have, defeat · To what, where: allegorical folk story, hearted rival
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 (Quères pueblos, good spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pueblos | det |
| 2 | Quères | Quères | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pueblos | compound |
| 3 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Acoma | case |
| 5 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pueblos | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Laguna | cc |
| 7 | Laguna | Laguna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Acoma | conj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 10 | allegorical | allegorical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 defeats | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 defeats | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spirit | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spirit | amod |
| 19 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 defeats | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heat | case |
| 21 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spirit | nmod |
| 22 | defeats | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rival | nmod:poss |
| 24 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hearted | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 icy | punct |
| 26 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rival | amod |
| 27 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 defeats | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Quères pueblos of Acoma and Laguna | a allegorical folk story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | defeat | present | the good spirit of heat | spirit's hearted rival | which obl | tree rules |
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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