The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 104
And at the same time it was made the law, which still is, that no one shall smoke till he has taken a scalp to prove himself a man.
Who acts: one, warrior · What happens: make, be, smoke, take, prove · To what, where: dance, law, scalp, warrior
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 (one, warrior), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 law | det |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 is | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 is | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 law | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smoke | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 smoke | mark |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smoke | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 smoke | aux |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | conj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 smoke | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scalp | det |
| 26 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 prove | mark |
| 28 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 taken | advcl |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 prove | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prove | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | dance | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | smoke | shall | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | present · perfect | warrior | a scalp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prove | to-infinitive | warrior not said here | warrior | a man obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme man=Attribute |
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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