The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 23
No one has ever been able to guess what is in it, but there are birds.”
Who acts: one, birds · What happens: have, be, guess · To what, where: question
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, birds), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 guess | mark |
| 8 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 guess | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 it | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 what | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 are | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | no one not said here | ever | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | guess | to-infinitive | no one not said here | what obj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | question | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | does | present | birds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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