The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 70
[36] The soapy root of the palmilla, used for washing.
What happens: use · To what, where: palmilla, 36
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: 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 36 | punct |
| 2 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 root | det |
| 5 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 root | amod |
| 6 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 36 | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 palmilla | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palmilla | det |
| 9 | palmilla | palmilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 root | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 palmilla | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 washing | case |
| 13 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the palmilla not said here | for washing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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