The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 165
As for the sister snakes, they still dwell where she bade them, and never venture away; though sometimes the people bring them to their houses to catch the mice, for these snakes never hurt a person.
Who acts: snakes, Moon, people · What happens: dwell, bade, not venture away, bring, catch, not hurt · To what, where: snakes, houses, mice, person
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 (snakes, Moon, people), 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 | ExtPos=ADP | 5 snakes | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snakes | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snakes | compound |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dwell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 snakes | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dwell | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 dwell | advmod |
| 9 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 bade | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bade | nsubj |
| 12 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dwell | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bade | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 venture | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 venture | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 venture | advmod |
| 17 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dwell | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 venture | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 bring | mark |
| 21 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 bring | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dwell | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 houses | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 houses | nmod:poss |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bring | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 catch | mark |
| 30 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bring | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mice | det |
| 32 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 catch | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hurt | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 hurt | mark |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 snakes | det |
| 36 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hurt | nsubj |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 hurt | advmod |
| 38 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 catch | advcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 person | det |
| 40 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hurt | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | snakes = snake | still | as the sister snakes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bade | past | Moon | snakes = snake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not venture away | infinitive | snakes = snake not said here | away property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | the people | snakes = snake | snakes's houses | sometimes property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not hurt | past | this snakes | a person | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=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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