The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 74
True it is that your father is Old-Black-Cane, and I, your mother, am called Corn-Woman.
Who acts: father, captivity · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Old Black Cane, am, True am Woman · 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 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 (father, captivity), 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 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Woman | amod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Woman | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Woman | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 Woman | mark |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Cane | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Cane | cop |
| 8 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Cane | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Old | punct |
| 10 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Cane | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cane | punct |
| 12 | Cane | Cane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Woman | nmod:poss |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 I | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Cane | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mother | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 I | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 am | punct |
| 20 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Woman | compound |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 am | acl |
| 22 | Corn | Corn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Corn | punct |
| 24 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your father | Old Black Cane | I nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | am not said here | Corn xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | captivity | Old Black Cane's True am Woman | 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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