The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 4
The story is related by two aged Pecos Indians who still live in the pueblo of Jemez.
Who acts: two aged Pecos Indians · What happens: relate, live · To what, where: story, pueblo
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 (two aged Pecos Indians), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 related | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 related | aux:pass |
| 4 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Indians | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Indians | nummod |
| 7 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Indians | amod |
| 8 | Pecos | Pecos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Indians | compound |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 related | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 live | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 related | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pueblo | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pueblo | det |
| 15 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Jemez | case |
| 17 | Jemez | Jemez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pueblo | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present · passive | two aged Pecos Indians | the story | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the pueblo of Jemez | still | who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pueblo=Location |
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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