The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 93
The country is always so dry that irrigation is necessary in farming, and in very bad years the streams have not water even for that.
Who acts: country, irrigation · What happens: be, have · To what, where: farming, water
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 (country, irrigation), 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 | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dry | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 dry | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dry | advmod |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 necessary | mark |
| 8 | irrigation | irrigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 necessary | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 necessary | cop |
| 10 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dry | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 farming | case |
| 12 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 necessary | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 bad | advmod |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 years | amod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 streams | det |
| 20 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 years | nmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dry | parataxis |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 water | advmod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 that | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the country | always, dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | irrigation | farming | necessary property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | water | year | that obj | 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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