The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 23
Among the five good people was one of the Cum-pah-whit-lah-wen (guards of the medicine-men); and to him Agostin told his story.
Who acts: the, Agostin · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: story, pah · 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 (the, Agostin), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 people | nummod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 the | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wen | det |
| 10 | Cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pah | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cum | punct |
| 12 | pah | pah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wen | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pah | punct |
| 14 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wen | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lah | punct |
| 16 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wen | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lah | punct |
| 18 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 guards | punct |
| 20 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wen | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 men | det |
| 23 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 men | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 medicine | punct |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 guards | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 guards | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | obl |
| 31 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 told | nsubj |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 story | nmod:poss |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 told | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the five good people | among one; of the whit lah wen Cum pah | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Agostin | pah's story | pah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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