The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 6
Once upon a time, in a pueblo south of Isleta,--one of its old colonies known as P’ah-que-tóo-ai, the Rainbow Town, but deserted long ago,--there were two Indians who were great friends.
Who acts: two great friends, Indians · What happens: know, desert, be · To what, where: old colonies, two great friends
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 (two great friends, Indians), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 deserted | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pueblo | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pueblo | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pueblo | det |
| 8 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 pueblo | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Isleta | case |
| 11 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 south | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pueblo | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 colonies | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 colonies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colonies | amod |
| 18 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 colonies | acl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 ai | case |
| 21 | P’ah | P'ah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 P’ah | punct |
| 23 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 P’ah | appos |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 que | punct |
| 25 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 tóo | punct |
| 27 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 known | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Town | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Town | det |
| 30 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Town | compound |
| 31 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 colonies | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 deserted | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 deserted | cc |
| 34 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 ago | advmod |
| 36 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 34 deserted | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 were | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 were | punct |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 were | expl |
| 40 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 deserted | conj |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 friends | nummod |
| 42 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 46 friends | nsubj |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 friends | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 friends | cop |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 friends | amod |
| 46 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 were | nsubj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | tale's old colonies and the Rainbow Town not said here | as tóo ai P’ah | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ai=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | desert | past | ago, once property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | two great friends | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Indians | two great friends | who nsubj | 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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