The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 92
Then the Trues gave power to the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh[45] to see the skeleton,--which no one else in the world could see, except the Trues and the two young men,--and said to him:
Who acts: Trues, one · What happens: give, see, say · To what, where: power, wid deh, skeleton, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Trues, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Trues | det |
| 3 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 deh | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deh | det |
| 8 | Cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deh | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cum | punct |
| 10 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cum | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 huit | punct |
| 12 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deh | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 la | punct |
| 14 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 huit | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 la | punct |
| 16 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deh | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 wid | punct |
| 18 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 45 | punct |
| 20 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 deh | appos |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 45 | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 skeleton | det |
| 25 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 see | obj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | nsubj |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 one | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nmod |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Trues | punct |
| 38 | except | except | ADP | _ | 40 Trues | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Trues | det |
| 40 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 see | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 men | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 men | det |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 men | nummod |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 men | amod |
| 45 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Trues | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 men | punct |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 said | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 said | cc |
| 49 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 said | obl |
| 52 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Trues | power | the wid deh Cum and pa huit and la | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to deh=Recipient | ||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Trues not said here | the skeleton | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skeleton=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | could | no one in the world | except the Trues and the two young men; which obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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