The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 128
Among the Pueblos, any such peculiarity of nature--and particularly of animal life--is very sure to have a folk-story hung to it.
Who acts: such peculiarity · What happens: be, have, hang · To what, where: folk story, story
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 (such peculiarity), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Pueblos | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pueblos | det |
| 3 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 sure | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 peculiarity | punct |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 peculiarity | det |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peculiarity | amod |
| 7 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nature | case |
| 9 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peculiarity | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 life | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 life | cc |
| 12 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 15 life | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peculiarity | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 peculiarity | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 sure | advmod |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 story | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 story | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hung | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | any such peculiarity of nature and animal life | among the Pueblos; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | any such peculiarity of nature and animal life not said here | a folk story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | a folk story not said here | story | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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