The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 78
Most of them migrated to the Northwest, and I have not as yet found even a legend to tell what became of them.
Who acts: Most, I · What happens: migrate, not find, tell, become · To what, where: legend · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Most, I), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 migrated | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Northwest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Northwest | det |
| 7 | Northwest | Northwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 migrated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 found | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 yet | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 migrated | conj |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 legend | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 legend | det |
| 18 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 legend | acl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 migrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | participle | Most of people | to the Northwest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | present · perfect | I | a legend | yet | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | a legend not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | become | past | of people; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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