The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 3

It is a story common to all the Quères, and is undoubtedly ancient; but as I heard it first in Isleta its scene is laid in Laguna, a pueblo only two hundred years old.

Who acts: adventure, I · What happens: be, hear, lay · To what, where: adventure, Isleta, scene, Laguna · 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 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 (adventure, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 common	nsubj
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Quères	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 Quères	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Quères	det
9	Quères	Quères	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 common	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ancient	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ancient	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ancient	cop
13	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	14 ancient	advmod
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 common	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 heard	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 common	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 heard	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Isleta	case
23	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 scene	nmod:poss
25	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 laid	aux:pass
27	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 heard	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Laguna	case
29	Laguna	Laguna	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pueblo	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pueblo	det
32	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Laguna	appos
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 hundred	advmod
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hundred	compound
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 old	obl:unmarked
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pueblo	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	adventure			to all Quères; a story nsubj; common property	tree rules
2	is	present	adventure not said here			ancient, undoubtedly property	tree rules
3	hear	past	I	adventure	Isleta	first property	tree rules
4	lay	present · passive		adventure's scene	Laguna		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in laguna=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/29/3/

🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 3