The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 143
[38] Nah-chu-rú-chu’s incantation followed the exact form still used by the Indian conjurors of the Southwest in their wonderful trick of making corn grow and mature from the kernel in one day.
Who acts: chu incantation, wonderful trick, corn, conjurors · What happens: follow, use, make, grow, mature, trick · To what, where: 38, exact form, wonderful trick, corn
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chu incantation, wonderful trick, corn, conjurors), 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 38 | punct |
| 2 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 followed | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 38 | punct |
| 4 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 12 incantation | discourse |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nah | punct |
| 6 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rú | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chu | punct |
| 8 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chu | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 rú | punct |
| 10 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 incantation | compound |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 chu | case |
| 12 | incantation | incantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 form | det |
| 15 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 used | advmod |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 form | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 conjurors | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conjurors | det |
| 21 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 conjurors | amod |
| 22 | conjurors | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 used | obl:agent |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Southwest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Southwest | det |
| 25 | Southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 conjurors | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 trick | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trick | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trick | amod |
| 29 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 used | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 making | mark |
| 31 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 trick | acl |
| 32 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 making | obj |
| 33 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 making | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mature | cc |
| 35 | mature | mature | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 grow | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 kernel | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 kernel | det |
| 38 | kernel | kernel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mature | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 day | case |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 day | nummod |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mature | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | chu incantation | 38 | the exact form obj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | participle | the exact form not said here | conjurors's wonderful trick | still | the Indian conjurors of the Southwest obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | make | gerund | conjurors's wonderful trick not said here | corn | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | infinitive | corn not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mature | infinitive | corn not said here | day | from the kernel | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from kernel=Patient | |||
| 6 | trick | conjurors = conjuror | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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