The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 1
ANOTHER folk-story told by the Quères colony in Isleta also relates to Acoma, perched upon the great round cliff in its far, fair valley.
Who acts: folk story · What happens: tell, relate, perch · To what, where: folk story, Acoma, great round cliff · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk story), 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 | ANOTHER | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 story | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 folk | punct |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 relates | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 colony | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colony | det |
| 8 | Quères | Quères | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | compound |
| 9 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Isleta | case |
| 11 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | nmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 relates | advmod |
| 13 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Acoma | case |
| 15 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 relates | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perched | punct |
| 17 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 relates | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 cliff | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cliff | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cliff | amod |
| 21 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cliff | amod |
| 22 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perched | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 valley | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 valley | nmod:poss |
| 25 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 valley | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 far | punct |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 valley | amod |
| 28 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cliff | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 relates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | another folk story not said here | by the Quères colony in Isleta | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | relate | present | another folk story | Acoma | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to acoma=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | perch | participle | another folk story not said here | the great round cliff in story's far fair valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon cliff=Location |
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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