The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 95
Ignorance of this fact has caused serious blunders on the part of historians unfamiliar with the country of which they wrote.
Who acts: Ignorance, blunders · What happens: cause, write, ignore · To what, where: serious blunders, part, fact
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 (Ignorance, blunders), 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 | Ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fact | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignorance | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blunders | amod |
| 8 | blunders | blunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caused | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 historians | case |
| 13 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 part | nmod |
| 14 | unfamiliar | unfamiliar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 historians | amod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unfamiliar | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wrote | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wrote | nsubj |
| 21 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 country | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · perfect | Ignorance of this fact | serious blunders | the part of historians | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blunder=Patient | |||
| 2 | write | past | blunders = blunder | of the country | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ignore | this fact | nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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