The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 7
[76] But it came that nearly all of them had the evil road, and in the whole town were but five True Believers (in the Indian religion).
Who acts: informant, all · What happens: come, have, be · To what, where: 76, evil road, five True Believers, whole town
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 (informant, all), 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 | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 2 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 76 | punct |
| 4 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 all | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 had | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 all | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Believers | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Believers | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 town | amod |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Believers | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Believers | cop |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 Believers | cc |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 Believers | nummod |
| 25 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Believers | amod |
| 26 | Believers | Believer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 religion | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 religion | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 religion | det |
| 30 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 religion | amod |
| 31 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Believers | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 religion | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | informant | 76 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | all of people | the evil road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | five True Believers | the whole town | the Indian religion appos | tree rules |
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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