The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 1
A VERY ancient and characteristic story about the origin of Isleta is based on the historic fact that part of its founders came from east of the Manzano Mountains, from one of the prehistoric pueblos whose ruins are now barely visible in those broad plains.
Who acts: part, prehistoric pueblos · What happens: base, come, be, ruin · To what, where: ancient story, historic fact, east, broad plains
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, prehistoric pueblos), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 2 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 3 ancient | advmod |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 characteristic | cc |
| 5 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ancient | conj |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 based | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 origin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 origin | det |
| 9 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Isleta | case |
| 11 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 origin | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 based | aux:pass |
| 13 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fact | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fact | det |
| 16 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fact | amod |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 based | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 founders | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 founders | nmod:poss |
| 22 | founders | founder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fact | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 east | case |
| 25 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Mountains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mountains | det |
| 28 | Manzano | Manzano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mountains | compound |
| 29 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 east | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 came | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pueblos | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pueblos | det |
| 35 | prehistoric | prehistoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pueblos | amod |
| 36 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 37 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 38 ruins | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 pueblos | conj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 visible | cop |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 visible | advmod |
| 41 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 42 visible | advmod |
| 42 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pueblos | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 plains | case |
| 44 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 plains | det |
| 45 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 plains | amod |
| 46 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 visible | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | present · passive | a ancient story about the origin of Isleta | the historic fact | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on fact=Source | ||||
| 2 | come | past | part of part's founders | the historic fact not said here | east of the Manzano Mountains | from one of the prehistoric pueblos and the prehistoric pueblos and ruins's ruins | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is | present | part of part's founders not said here | that broad plains | now | barely, visible property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | ruin | the prehistoric pueblos and the prehistoric pueblos and ruins's ruins | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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