The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 19
[14] _Ai nana_ is an exclamation always used by mourners.
Who acts: nana _ · What happens: be, use · To what, where: exclamation, 14
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 (nana _), 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 14 | punct |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclamation | punct |
| 5 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nana | compound |
| 6 | nana | nana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | compound |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclamation | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclamation | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 exclamation | det |
| 10 | exclamation | exclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 14 | conj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 used | advmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 exclamation | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 mourners | case |
| 14 | mourners | mourner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 used | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | nana _ | a exclamation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a exclamation not said here | by mourners; always property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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