The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 10
At one time, four hundred years ago or more, there lived in Isleta a very handsome youth whose name was K’oo-ah-máh-koo-hóo-oo-aí-deh--which means Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob.
Who acts: name, K’oo, aí deh, Young Man · What happens: live, be, deh, mean, corncob, name · To what, where: handsome youth, Isleta, K’oo, Young Man
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 (name, K’oo, aí deh, Young Man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | conj |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 more | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 years | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | expl |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Isleta | case |
| 15 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 handsome | advmod |
| 18 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 youth | amod |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 K’oo | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 K’oo | cop |
| 23 | K’oo | K'oo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 deh | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 K’oo | punct |
| 25 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 37 deh | discourse |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ah | punct |
| 27 | máh | máh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 koo | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 máh | punct |
| 29 | koo | koo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deh | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 hóo | punct |
| 31 | hóo | hóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deh | nsubj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 oo | punct |
| 33 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hóo | appos |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 oo | punct |
| 35 | aí | aí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deh | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 aí | punct |
| 37 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 youth | acl:relcl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 means | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 means | nsubj |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 deh | parataxis |
| 41 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Man | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Young | punct |
| 43 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 means | obj |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 Corncob | punct |
| 45 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 Corncob | nsubj |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 Embraces | punct |
| 47 | Embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 Corncob | nsubj |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 Corncob | punct |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 Corncob | det |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 a | punct |
| 51 | Corncob | corncob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Man | appos |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a handsome youth | Isleta; there | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | K’oo's name | K’oo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deh | K’oo | a handsome youth not said here | máh koo nsubj; hóo nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | aí deh | Young Man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 5 | corncob | Young Man | Embraces nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | name | K’oo | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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