The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 57
Of those he taught, there was one who was not a True Believer--the Badger.
Who acts: man · What happens: teach, be, not be · To what, where: one, True Believer
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 one | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | nsubj |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Believer | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Believer | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Believer | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Believer | det |
| 13 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Believer | amod |
| 14 | Believer | Believer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 one | appos |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Badger | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Badger | det |
| 17 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Believer | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | one | of those | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a True Believer and the Badger | who nsubj; the Badger conj | 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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