The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 124
And to this very day they go with short tails, and are honored by all the animals, and by all True Believers.
Who acts: Bear, animals · What happens: go, honor
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, animals), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tails | case |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tails | amod |
| 10 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 honored | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honored | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 honored | aux:pass |
| 14 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 animals | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 animals | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 animals | det |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 honored | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Believers | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Believers | cc |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Believers | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 Believers | det |
| 23 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Believers | amod |
| 24 | Believers | believer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 honored | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Bear | day | with short tails | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tail=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | honor | present · passive | all animals | by all True Believers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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