The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 39
Among the other villages that heard of his prowess was Nah-choo-rée-too-ee, all of whose people “had the bad road.”
Who acts: other villages, all · What happens: hear, have · To what, where: bad road
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 (other villages, all), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 villages | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 villages | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 villages | amod |
| 4 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 villages | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prowess | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Nah | cop |
| 11 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 15 rée | discourse |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nah | punct |
| 13 | choo | choo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rée | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 choo | punct |
| 15 | rée | rée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prowess | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ee | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 ee | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 19 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rée | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 villages | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 had | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 people | nmod:poss |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 road | amod |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the other villages | of head's prowess choo rée | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of prowess=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | all of people | the bad road | among the other villages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
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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