The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 99
So they took some of the sacred smoking-weed wrapped in a corn-husk and went to Shée-wid-deh, who has the sharpest eyes in all the world.
Who acts: people, Shée wid deh · What happens: take, wrap, go, have · To what, where: some, sacred smoking weed, corn husk, Shée wid deh, sharpest eyes, world
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 (people, Shée wid deh), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 weed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weed | det |
| 7 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weed | amod |
| 8 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 smoking | punct |
| 10 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 weed | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 husk | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 husk | det |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 husk | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 corn | punct |
| 16 | husk | husk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 deh | case |
| 20 | Shée | Shée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 deh | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Shée | punct |
| 22 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deh | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wid | punct |
| 24 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 deh | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eyes | det |
| 29 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 eyes | amod |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 has | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 world | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eyes | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | people | some of the sacred smoking weed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | the sacred smoking weed not said here | a corn husk | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in husk=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | people not said here | Shée wid deh | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to deh=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Shée wid deh | the sharpest eyes | all world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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