The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 12
That name is Spanish, and has three applications in Isleta: real grandparents; the remarkable masked officials of a certain dance; and the bad Old Ones.
Who acts: name, remarkable · What happens: be, have, mask · To what, where: three applications, Isleta, officials
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, remarkable), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Spanish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Spanish | cop |
| 4 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Spanish | parataxis |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 applications | nummod |
| 9 | applications | application | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Isleta | case |
| 11 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 applications | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 grandparents | punct |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grandparents | amod |
| 14 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 applications | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 masked | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 remarkable | det |
| 17 | remarkable | remarkable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 masked | nsubj |
| 18 | masked | mask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Spanish | conj |
| 19 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 masked | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dance | amod |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 officials | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ones | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Ones | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Ones | det |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Ones | amod |
| 28 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Ones | amod |
| 29 | Ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Spanish | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Spanish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that name | the bad Old Ones conj; spanish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | three applications and real grandparents | Isleta | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mask | past | the remarkable | officials of a certain dance | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme official=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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