The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 123
But the story is very valuable, not only for the glimpse it affords of some of their most secret beliefs, but also as showing how folk-stories of the most aboriginal stamp are still coined.
Who acts: story, survivors · What happens: be, afford, show, coin, believe · To what, where: glimpse, folk stories · 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 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 (story, survivors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 valuable | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valuable | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 valuable | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 valuable | advmod |
| 6 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glimpse | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 glimpse | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 glimpse | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 glimpse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glimpse | det |
| 12 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valuable | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 affords | nsubj |
| 14 | affords | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 glimpse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 some | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 affords | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beliefs | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beliefs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 beliefs | amod |
| 20 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beliefs | amod |
| 21 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 showing | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 showing | cc |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 showing | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 showing | mark |
| 26 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 valuable | advcl |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 coined | advmod |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stories | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 folk | punct |
| 30 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 coined | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 stamp | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stamp | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 aboriginal | advmod |
| 34 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stamp | amod |
| 35 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stories | nmod |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 coined | aux:pass |
| 37 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 coined | advmod |
| 38 | coined | coin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 showing | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story | for the glimpse; valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | afford | present | story | the glimpse not said here | of some of survivors's most secret beliefs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | show | gerund | the story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | coin | present · passive | folk stories of the aboriginal stamp | still | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | believe | survivors = survivor | nom belief «cognition 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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