The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 160
The Moon came and put upon their heads a little of the pollen of the corn-blossom (still used by Pueblo snake-charmers) to tame them, and a pinch of the sacred meal for their food.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: come, put, use, tame, pinch · To what, where: heads, corn blossom, sisters, sacred meal
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 (Moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 heads | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heads | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pollen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pollen | det |
| 13 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 little | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blossom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blossom | det |
| 16 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blossom | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 corn | punct |
| 18 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pollen | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 used | advmod |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 blossom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 charmers | case |
| 23 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 charmers | compound |
| 24 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 charmers | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 snake | punct |
| 26 | charmers | charmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 tame | mark |
| 29 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 used | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tame | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 food | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 food | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pinch | det |
| 34 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 food | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 meal | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 meal | det |
| 37 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 meal | amod |
| 38 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pinch | nmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 food | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 food | nmod:poss |
| 41 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Moon | for sisters's food a pinch of the sacred meal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | the Moon not said here | sisters's heads | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | the corn blossom not said here | still | by Pueblo snake charmers | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | tame | to-infinitive | sisters = sister | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pinch | the sacred meal | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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