The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 1

ONCE upon a time there were two towns of the Tée-wahn, called Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee (white village) and Nah-choo-rée-too-ee (yellow village).

Who acts: two towns, bah tóo · What happens: be, call, ee · To what, where: two towns · 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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two towns, bah tóo), 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	ONCE	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 were	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ONCE	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 towns	nummod
8	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 wahn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wahn	det
11	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wahn	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Tée	punct
13	wahn	wahn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 towns	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 towns	acl
16	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	24 ee	discourse
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Nah	punct
18	bah	bah	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tóo	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bah	punct
20	tóo	tóo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ee	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ee	punct
22	too	too	ADV	_	24 ee	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 too	punct
24	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 village	punct
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 village	amod
27	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ee	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 village	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rée	cc
30	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	34 rée	discourse
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Nah	punct
32	choo	choo	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rée	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 choo	punct
34	rée	rée	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ee	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 ee	punct
36	too	too	ADV	_	38 ee	advmod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 too	punct
38	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rée	appos
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 village	punct
40	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 village	amod
41	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ee	appos
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 village	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two towns of the Tée wahn		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		two towns of the Tée wahn not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ee		bah tóo			white village appos; choo rée conj	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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 1

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 1