The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 14
A flawless ear of pure white corn (a type of fertility or motherhood) is tricked out with a downy mass of snow-white feathers, and hung with ornaments of silver, coral, and the precious turquoise.
What happens: trick out, hang, type · To what, where: flawless ear, precious turquoise, fertility
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 2 | flawless | flawless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ear | amod |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 corn | case |
| 5 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corn | amod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corn | amod |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ear | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 type | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 type | det |
| 10 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corn | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fertility | case |
| 12 | fertility | fertility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 type | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 motherhood | cc |
| 14 | motherhood | motherhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 type | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 type | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tricked | aux:pass |
| 17 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 tricked | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 mass | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mass | det |
| 21 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mass | amod |
| 22 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tricked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 feathers | case |
| 24 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feathers | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 snow | punct |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feathers | amod |
| 27 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mass | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hung | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hung | cc |
| 30 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tricked | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 ornaments | case |
| 32 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hung | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 silver | case |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ornaments | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 coral | punct |
| 36 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ornaments | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 turquoise | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 turquoise | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 turquoise | det |
| 40 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 turquoise | amod |
| 41 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hung | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick out | present · passive | a flawless ear of pure white corn | with a downy mass of snow white feathers | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | participle | the precious turquoise | with ornaments of silver and coral | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | type | fertility | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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