The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 1
AMONG the folk-stories of the Pueblos which show at once that they are not of such antiquity as the rest, is this.
Who acts: Pueblos · What happens: show, not be, be · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | AMONG | among | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Pueblos | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pueblos | det |
| 8 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 show | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 show | nsubj |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 show | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 antiquity | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 antiquity | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 antiquity | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 antiquity | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 antiquity | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 antiquity | amod |
| 19 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 this | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 rest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 antiquity | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 antiquity | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 show | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | among the folk stories; of the Pueblos; which nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | Pueblos = pueblo | of such antiquity; as the rest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | 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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