The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 12
The most important charm or implement of the medicine-men, the holiest fetish of all, is typical of her.
Who acts: important charm · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (important charm), 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 | 4 charm | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 important | advmod |
| 3 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 charm | amod |
| 4 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 typical | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 implement | cc |
| 6 | implement | implement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charm | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 medicine | punct |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 implement | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fetish | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fetish | det |
| 14 | holiest | holey | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 fetish | amod |
| 15 | fetish | fetish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 fetish | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 charm | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 typical | cop |
| 20 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 typical | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 typical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the important charm or implement of the medicine men | of wife; typical property | tree rules |
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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