The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 10
[76] It was, indeed, the largest pueblo in New Mexico, having at one time a population of about 2000.
Who acts: hunter, largest pueblo · What happens: be, have · To what, where: largest pueblo, New Mexico, 76
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, largest pueblo), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 2 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pueblo | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pueblo | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pueblo | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 pueblo | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 indeed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pueblo | det |
| 10 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 pueblo | amod |
| 11 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 76 | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Mexico | case |
| 13 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mexico | compound |
| 14 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pueblo | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 having | punct |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pueblo | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 time | nummod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 having | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 population | det |
| 21 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 2000 | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 2000 | advmod |
| 24 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 population | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hunter | the largest pueblo | New Mexico | indeed property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have | gerund | the largest pueblo not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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