The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 5
“Now, this is a true story,” said my informant, an Isleteño, who had often heard it from them.
Who acts: this, informant · What happens: be, say, hear · To what, where: true story, story · 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 (this, informant), 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 | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 story | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 story | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 informant | nmod:poss |
| 13 | informant | informant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Isleteño | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Isleteño | det |
| 16 | Isleteño | Isleteño | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 informant | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | a true story | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | my informant | story | from Indians = indian; who nsubj; often property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from they=Source |
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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