The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 85

[108] Of course chickens and cheeses were not known to the Pueblos before the Spanish conquest; and the cheese is so vital a part of the story that I hardly think it can be an interpolation.

Who acts: cheese, I · What happens: not know, be, think · To what, where: 108, story, interpolation · 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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese, I), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 108	punct
2	108	108	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 known	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 108	punct
4	Of	of	ADP	_	6 chickens	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chickens	compound
6	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 108	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cheeses	cc
8	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chickens	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 known	advmod
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Pueblos	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pueblos	det
14	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 conquest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 conquest	det
17	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 conquest	amod
18	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 vital	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 vital	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cheese	det
22	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vital	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 vital	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 vital	advmod
25	vital	vital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 known	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 part	det
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vital	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 story	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 think	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 think	advmod
34	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 story	acl:relcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 interpolation	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 interpolation	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 interpolation	cop
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 interpolation	det
39	interpolation	interpolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 think	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · passive		108 of course chickens and cheeses	before the Spanish conquest	to the Pueblos	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»
2	is	present	the cheese			a part of the story nsubj; vital property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	I	the story		hardly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	is a	can	cheese	a interpolation			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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 85