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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 6

“You have heard,” he said, with a slow puff, “about Nah-chu-rú-chu, the mighty medicine-man who lived here in Isleta in the times of the ancients?”

Who acts: You, Benito, mighty medicine man · What happens: hear, say, live · To what, where: Isleta · 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 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 (You, Benito, mighty medicine 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

punctnsubjauxccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctcasedetamodccomppunctpunctcasediscoursepunctcompoundpunctconjpunctconjpunctdetamodcompoundpunctapposnsubjacl:relcladvmodcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTYouPRONhaveAUXheardVERB,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCTwithADPaDETslowADJpuffNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTaboutADPNahINTJ-PUNCTchuNOUN-PUNCTrúNOUN-PUNCTchuX,PUNCTtheDETmightyADJmedicineNOUN-PUNCTmanNOUNwhoPRONlivedVERBhereADVinADPIsletaPROPNinADPtheDETtimesNOUNofADPtheDETancientsNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 heardpunct
2YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs4 heardnsubj
3havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 heardaux
4heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 saidccomp
5,,PUNCT_4 heardpunct
6”"PUNCT_4 heardpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 saidnsubj
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9,,PUNCT_13 puffpunct
10withwithADP_13 puffcase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 puffdet
12slowslowADJDegree=Pos13 puffamod
13puffpuffNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidccomp
14,,PUNCT_21 rúpunct
15“"PUNCT_21 rúpunct
16aboutaboutADP_21 rúcase
17NahnahINTJ_21 rúdiscourse
18--PUNCT_17 Nahpunct
19chuchuNOUNNumber=Sing21 rúcompound
20--PUNCT_19 chupunct
21rúrúNOUNNumber=Sing13 puffconj
22--PUNCT_23 chupunct
23chuchuXForeign=Yes21 rúconj
24,,PUNCT_29 manpunct
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 mandet
26mightymightyADJDegree=Pos29 manamod
27medicinemedicineNOUNNumber=Sing29 mancompound
28--PUNCT_27 medicinepunct
29manmanNOUNNumber=Sing21 rúappos
30whowhoPRONPronType=Rel31 livednsubj
31livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 manacl:relcl
32herehereADVPronType=Dem31 livedadvmod
33ininADP_34 Isletacase
34IsletaIsletaPROPNNumber=Sing31 livedobl
35ininADP_37 timescase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 timesdet
37timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur31 livedobl
38ofofADP_40 ancientscase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 ancientsdet
40ancientsancientNOUNNumber=Plur37 timesnmod
41??PUNCT_29 manpunct
42”"PUNCT_13 puffpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hear in a quotepresent · perfectYouvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2say speech: askpastBenitoa slow puff and chu rú ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3live in a quotepastthe mighty medicine manIsleta; heretimevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=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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