The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 5
It is an Indian fairy tale, but with a Christian moral--which was learned from the noble and effective Spanish missionaries who toiled here.
Who acts: tale, noble Spanish missionaries · What happens: be, learn, toil · To what, where: Indian fairy tale, Christian moral
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 (tale, noble Spanish missionaries), 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 | 6 tale | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tale | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | compound |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moral | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 moral | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 moral | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moral | det |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moral | amod |
| 12 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | appos |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 learned | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 learned | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 learned | aux:pass |
| 16 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 moral | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 missionaries | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 missionaries | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 missionaries | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 effective | cc |
| 21 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noble | conj |
| 22 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 missionaries | amod |
| 23 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learned | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 toiled | nsubj |
| 25 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 missionaries | acl:relcl |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 toiled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tale | a Indian fairy tale | a Christian moral appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | past · passive | a Christian moral | from the noble Spanish missionaries | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from missionary=Source | ||||
| 3 | toil | past | the noble Spanish missionaries | here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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