The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 8
A very popular tale is that of his adventure with a bright cousin of his.
Who acts: popular tale · 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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular tale), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 popular | advmod |
| 3 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tale | amod |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adventure | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adventure | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 adventure | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 adventure | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cousin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cousin | det |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cousin | amod |
| 13 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adventure | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 his | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 adventure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a popular tale | of crow's adventure; with crow's bright cousin; crow nmod:poss | 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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