The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 120
As for the people who lived in the Place of the Red Earth, they all moved down here,[29] because the Apaches were very bad; and here their descendants live to this day.”
Who acts: people, Apaches, descendants · What happens: live, move down, be · To what, where: Place, 29
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Apaches, descendants), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 moved | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Place | det |
| 9 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 12 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Earth | flat |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 moved | advmod |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 moved | compound:prt |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 moved | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 29 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 29 | punct |
| 22 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 moved | obl |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 29 | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 bad | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Apaches | det |
| 26 | Apaches | apache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bad | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bad | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 bad | advmod |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moved | advcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 live | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 live | cc |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 live | advmod |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 live | nsubj |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 moved | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 day | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 moved | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the people | the Place of the Red Earth | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | move down | past | people | 29 | here | as the people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | the Apaches | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | people's descendants | here | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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