The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 49

He was one of “the oldest inhabitants” of New Mexico--older than any other Indian among the twelve hundred of Isleta, except tottering Diego; and that is saying a great deal.

Who acts: child, that · What happens: be, totter, say · To what, where: one, Diego, great deal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (child, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 inhabitants	case
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 inhabitants	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inhabitants	det
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 inhabitants	amod
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 inhabitants	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Mexico	case
11	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mexico	compound
12	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 inhabitants	nmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 older	punct
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	parataxis
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 Indian	mark
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 Indian	nsubj
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Indian	amod
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 older	conj
19	among	among	ADP	_	22 hundred	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hundred	det
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hundred	compound
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Indian	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Isleta	case
24	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hundred	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tottering	punct
26	except	except	ADP	_	27 tottering	mark
27	tottering	totter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Indian	appos
28	Diego	Diego	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tottering	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 saying	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 saying	cc
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 saying	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 saying	aux
33	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 one	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 deal	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 deal	amod
36	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saying	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	child	one	of the oldest inhabitants of New Mexico	tree rules
2	totter	gerund		Diego		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diego=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	that	a great deal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 49