The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 3
That seems to us a long time to go back in the history of America, but to the Pueblos it is a trifling dot on the long line of their antiquity.
Who acts: That, Pueblos · What happens: seem, go back, be · To what, where: us, history, trifling dot, long line
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 history | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 history | det |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 America | case |
| 15 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 history | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dot | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 dot | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Pueblos | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Pueblos | det |
| 20 | Pueblos | Pueblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 dot | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dot | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dot | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dot | det |
| 24 | trifling | trifling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dot | compound |
| 25 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 line | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 line | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 line | amod |
| 29 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dot | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 antiquity | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 antiquity | nmod:poss |
| 32 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 line | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | That | us | time | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | That not said here | the history of America | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Pueblos | a trifling dot | the long line of stories's antiquity | to the Pueblos | 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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