The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 96
[46] The only official method of killing a witch, which is one of the chief duties of the Cum-pa-huit-la-wen.
Who acts: only official method · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: witch, one, 46
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 (only official method), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 46 | punct |
| 2 | 46 | 46 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 46 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 method | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 method | amod |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 method | amod |
| 7 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 46 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 killing | mark |
| 9 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 method | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 method | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 duties | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 duties | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 duties | amod |
| 19 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wen | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wen | det |
| 22 | Cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wen | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cum | punct |
| 24 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Cum | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 huit | punct |
| 26 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wen | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 la | punct |
| 28 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wen | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 la | punct |
| 30 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 duties | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 46 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | the only official method not said here | a witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the only official method | one | of the chief duties of the huit la wen Cum and pa | tree rules |
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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