The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 4
The following tale is an amusing instance of the fashion in which some of the myth-makers have mixed things.
Who acts: following tale · What happens: follow, be, mix · To what, where: amusing instance, some, fashion
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 (following tale), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instance | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 instance | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 instance | det |
| 6 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 instance | amod |
| 7 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fashion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fashion | det |
| 10 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instance | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 mixed | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 makers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 makers | det |
| 16 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makers | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 myth | punct |
| 18 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mixed | aux |
| 20 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mixed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the following tale | a amusing instance | of the fashion | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mix | present · perfect · passive | some of the myth makers | the fashion | things obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary thing=Product |
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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