The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 2
Once upon a time there lived in one of those villages (so runs the story) a young Indian named Kahp-too-óo-yoo, the Corn-stalk Young Man.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: live, run, be · To what, where: story, young Indian óo yoo
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 (Kahp), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 villages | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 villages | det |
| 11 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 runs | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 runs | advmod |
| 14 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 runs | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 runs | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 yoo | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 yoo | amod |
| 20 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 yoo | amod |
| 21 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 yoo | cop |
| 22 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 yoo | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kahp | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 yoo | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 too | punct |
| 26 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yoo | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 óo | punct |
| 28 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 runs | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stalk | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stalk | det |
| 31 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stalk | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Corn | punct |
| 33 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yoo | parataxis |
| 34 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Man | amod |
| 35 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 stalk | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | time | in one of that villages; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location | |||
| 2 | run | present | the story | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | Kahp | a young Indian óo yoo | the Corn stalk parataxis | 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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