The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 2
It is plain that the story is post-Spanish--that it has been invented within the last three hundred and fifty years.
Who acts: rest, story · What happens: be, invent · To what, where: rest
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 (rest, story), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 plain | cop |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 post-Spanish | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 post-Spanish | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 post-Spanish | cop |
| 8 | post-Spanish | post-spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plain | advcl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 invented | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 invented | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 invented | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 invented | aux:pass |
| 14 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 plain | conj |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 years | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fifty | cc |
| 21 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | conj |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 invented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rest | plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the story | post-spanish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | invent | present · perfect · passive | rest | year | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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