The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 92
[83] Here, as in several other stories in this volume, is a touch of the arid character of the Southwest.
What happens: be · To what, where: touch
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Here | punct |
| 2 | 83 | 83 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Here | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 83 | punct |
| 4 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Here | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stories | amod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stories | amod |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Here | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 volume | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 volume | det |
| 13 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touch | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 touch | det |
| 17 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Here | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 character | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 character | det |
| 20 | arid | arid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 character | amod |
| 21 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touch | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Southwest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Southwest | det |
| 24 | Southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 character | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a touch | of the arid character of the Southwest | 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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