The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 19
They were both young and pretty, but they “had the evil road”--which is the Indian way of saying that they were possessed of a magic power which they always used for ill.
Who acts: admirers, evil road, Indian way · What happens: be, have, say, possess, use · To what, where: evil road, Indian way, admirers, magic power · 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 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 (admirers, evil road, Indian way), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pretty | cc |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 road | amod |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 road | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 way | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 way | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 road | conj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 saying | mark |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 way | acl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 possessed | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 possessed | aux:pass |
| 27 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 power | det |
| 30 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 power | compound |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 possessed | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 used | obj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 used | nsubj |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 used | advmod |
| 35 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 power | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 ill | case |
| 37 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 used | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | admirers = admirer | both, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | admirers = admirer not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | admirers = admirer | the evil road and the Indian way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the evil road and the Indian way | the Indian way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Indian way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | possess | past · passive | admirers = admirer | of a magic power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | use | past | admirers = admirer | a magic power | for ill; always property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent which=Theme for ill=Eventuality |
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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