The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 75
But as soon as their hearts thought of love, a skeleton was between them in place of the girl--for they who go to war or take a scalp have no right to think of love.
Who acts: skeleton, boys · What happens: think, be, go, take, have · To what, where: place, war, scalp, right
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 (skeleton, boys), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 hearts | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 them | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 skeleton | det |
| 12 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 them | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 them | cop |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 love | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 them | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 girl | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 go | nsubj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 take | cc |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 scalp | det |
| 31 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | advcl |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 right | det |
| 34 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 think | mark |
| 36 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 right | acl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 love | case |
| 38 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 think | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | as boys's hearts; of love; soon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a skeleton | place of the girl | between boys = boy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | present | boys = boy | war | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | boys = boy not said here | a scalp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | boys = boy not said here | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | no right not said here | of love | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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