The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 3
The history of the abandonment of Pecos is by no means startling; but the Indian tradition--for they have already added this to their countless myths--is decidedly so.
Who acts: history · What happens: be, add, abandon · To what, where: bricks, Pecos
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 (history), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 history | det |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 abandonment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 abandonment | det |
| 5 | abandonment | abandonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 history | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Pecos | case |
| 7 | Pecos | Pecos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 abandonment | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | cop |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 no | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 means | obl |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | startling | startling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tradition | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tradition | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tradition | det |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tradition | amod |
| 17 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | parataxis |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 added | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 added | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 added | aux |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 added | advmod |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tradition | conj |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 added | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 myths | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 myths | nmod:poss |
| 27 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 myths | amod |
| 28 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 added | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 decidedly | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 decidedly | cop |
| 31 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 32 so | advmod |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the history of the abandonment of Pecos | by no; startling obj; the Indian tradition parataxis; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | bricks = brick | to bricks's countless myths; this obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | decidedly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | abandon | Pecos | nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=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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