The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 103
For it was because they had love-thoughts of the Navajo girl that her skeleton haunted them.
Who acts: dance, skeleton · What happens: be, haunt · To what, where: principals
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, skeleton), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 9 thoughts | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thoughts | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thoughts | cop |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thoughts | aux |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thoughts | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 haunted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | Navajo | Navajo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | compound |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thoughts | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 haunted | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 haunted | nsubj |
| 17 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 haunted | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 haunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dance | for love thoughts; of the Navajo girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | haunt | past | girl's skeleton | principals = principal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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