The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 28
In either case, the belief is that no evil spirit can approach the wearer while he has that charm about him.
Who acts: belief, Quáh · What happens: be, have · To what, where: case, charm
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 (belief, Quáh), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approach | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 belief | det |
| 6 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approach | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 approach | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 approach | mark |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 spirit | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spirit | amod |
| 11 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approach | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 approach | aux |
| 13 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wearer | det |
| 15 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approach | obj |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 has | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 approach | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 charm | det |
| 20 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 charm | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 approach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | the belief | either case | no evil spirit nsubj; the wearer obj; approach property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | Quáh | that charm | about pouch | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=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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