The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 3
They were the ones who led mankind forth from its first home in the dark center of the earth.
Who acts: demigods, ones · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: ones, mankind, first home
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 (demigods, ones), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ones | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | acl:relcl |
| 7 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obj |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 led | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 center | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 center | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 center | amod |
| 16 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 center | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | demigods = demigod | the ones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the ones | mankind | mankind's first home | in the dark center of the earth; forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mankind=Theme from home=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.
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