The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 25
Indeed, except for their unusual size, they would have been easily mistaken for Indians of some distant tribe.
Who acts: teeth · What happens: be
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 (teeth), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 mistaken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 size | case |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 size | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 size | nmod:poss |
| 6 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 size | amod |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mistaken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 size | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mistaken | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mistaken | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mistaken | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 mistaken | cop |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 mistaken | advmod |
| 14 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Indians | case |
| 16 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 mistaken | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tribe | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 tribe | det |
| 19 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tribe | amod |
| 20 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Indians | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | teeth = tooth | except teeth's unusual size; for Indians of some distant tribe; easily, indeed, mistaken property | 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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