The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 1
ONCE on a time many Káh-ahn lived in the edge of some woods.
Who acts: many Káh ahn · What happens: live · To what, where: edge
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many Káh ahn), 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 lived | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ONCE | obl |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ahn | amod |
| 6 | Káh | Káh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ahn | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Káh | punct |
| 8 | ahn | ahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 edge | det |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 woods | det |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 edge | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | many Káh ahn | the edge of some woods | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in edge=Location |
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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