The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 1
THERE is a fragmentary Quères folk-story which bears internal evidence that its heroine was the mother of the Hero Twins--that is, the Moon.
Who acts: Quères folk story, fragmentary, heroine, that · What happens: be, story · To what, where: bears, mother, Moon
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quères folk story, fragmentary, heroine, that), 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 | THERE | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 4 | fragmentary | fragmentary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nsubj |
| 5 | Quères | Quères | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 bears | det |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 story | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evidence | amod |
| 12 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 mother | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heroine | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mother | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evidence | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Twins | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Twins | det |
| 21 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Twins | compound |
| 22 | Twins | Twin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 mother | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Moon | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Moon | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Moon | cop |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Moon | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Moon | det |
| 28 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 is | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a Quères folk story and internal evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | story | fragmentary | which bears | internal evidence conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | fragmentary's heroine | the mother | of the Hero Twins | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the Moon | tree rules |
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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