The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 9
When the mesa town was inhabited, so was Isleta; and, being but three miles apart, the intercommunication was constant.
Who acts: intercommunication · What happens: inhabit, be · To what, where: mesa town, Isleta
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 (intercommunication), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 inhabited | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | mesa | mesa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | compound |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 6 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Isleta | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 Isleta | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Isleta | cop |
| 10 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabited | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 constant | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 constant | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 constant | cop |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 constant | cc |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 miles | nummod |
| 17 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 apart | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 23 constant | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 constant | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 intercommunication | det |
| 21 | intercommunication | intercommunication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 constant | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 constant | cop |
| 23 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 inhabited | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past · passive | the mesa town | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Isleta | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the intercommunication | apart, constant property | 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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