The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 1
IN the times that were farthest back, the forefathers of those who now dwell in Isleta were scattered about in many small villages.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, dwell, scatter · To what, where: Isleta, forefathers, many small villages
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 times | det |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scattered | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 farthest | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 farthest | cop |
| 6 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 times | nmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 farthest | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forefathers | det |
| 10 | forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 forefathers | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dwell | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 dwell | advmod |
| 15 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Isleta | case |
| 17 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dwell | obl |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 scattered | aux:pass |
| 19 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 scattered | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 villages | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 villages | amod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 villages | amod |
| 24 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scattered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | present | Isleta | now | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location | |||
| 3 | scatter | past · passive | the forefathers of those | many small villages | time | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in village=Destination |
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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