The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 2
You have already heard the myths of how the inhabitants of several villages finally abandoned their homes and came to live in the one big town of the Tée-wahn.
Who acts: You · What happens: hear, abandon, come, live · To what, where: myths, homes, one big town
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 myths | det |
| 6 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 inhabitants | case |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 inhabitants | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inhabitants | det |
| 10 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 myths | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 villages | case |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 villages | amod |
| 13 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 abandoned | obl |
| 14 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 15 abandoned | advmod |
| 15 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 inhabitants | parataxis |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 homes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 abandoned | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 abandoned | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 town | nummod |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 live | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wahn | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wahn | det |
| 29 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 wahn | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Tée | punct |
| 31 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 town | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | You | the myths of the inhabitants | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer myth=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | abandon | past | villages's homes | of several villages; finally property | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme home=Source of village=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | the one big town of the Tée wahn | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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