The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 14
Having thus propitiated the divinities who dwell in the directions named, Lorenso looks about the circle to see if all are listening.
Who acts: divinities, Lorenso, all · What happens: have, propitiate, dwell, name, look, see · To what, where: divinities, directions
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (divinities, Lorenso, all), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 looks | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 propitiated | advmod |
| 3 | propitiated | propitiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 divinities | det |
| 5 | divinities | divinity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 propitiated | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dwell | nsubj |
| 7 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 divinities | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 directions | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 directions | det |
| 10 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwell | obl |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 directions | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 13 | Lorenso | Lorenso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 circle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 circle | det |
| 17 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 circle | acl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 listening | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 listening | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 listening | aux |
| 23 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 see | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | propitiate | participle | the divinities | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the divinities | the directions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | the directions not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | present | Lorenso | about the circle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about circle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | Lorenso not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | listen a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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