The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 9
But, with the coming of Shó-kee-ah--for that was the name of the handsome stranger--a sad change befell Acoma.
Who acts: that, sad change · What happens: come, be, befall · To what, where: Acoma
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 (that, sad change), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 coming | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 3 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 coming | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coming | det |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kee | case |
| 7 | Shó | Shó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kee | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Shó | punct |
| 9 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ah | punct |
| 11 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 kee | discourse |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 name | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stranger | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stranger | amod |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 befell | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 change | det |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 change | amod |
| 25 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 befell | nsubj |
| 26 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | parataxis |
| 27 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 befell | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | of Shó kee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of kee=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | is | past | that | for the name; of the handsome stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befall | past | a sad change | Acoma | 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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