The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 25
[84] About equivalent to our “fairy godmother.”
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: 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 | _ | 2 84 | punct |
| 2 | 84 | 84 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 equivalent | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 84 | punct |
| 4 | About | about | ADP | _ | 5 equivalent | case |
| 5 | equivalent | equivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 godmother | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 godmother | punct |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 godmother | compound |
| 10 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 equivalent | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 equivalent | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 equivalent | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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