The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 76

[97] It is one of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos that the house and its general contents belong to the wife; the fields and other outside property to the husband.

Who acts: tée, house · What happens: be, belong · To what, where: one

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 (tée, house), 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	_	6 one	punct
2	97	97	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 one	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 97	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 customs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 customs	det
9	fundamental	fundamental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 customs	amod
10	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Pueblos	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pueblos	det
13	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 customs	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 belong	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 belong	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 contents	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 contents	nmod:poss
19	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 contents	amod
20	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 house	conj
21	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wife	det
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 belong	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fields	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fields	det
27	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 other	cc
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fields	conj
30	outside	outside	ADP	_	31 property	case
31	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 other	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 husband	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 husband	det
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 property	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	tée	one				of the fundamental customs of the Pueblos; 97 discourse; the fields parataxis	tree rules
2	belong	present	the house and tée's general contents					to the wife	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 76