The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 74
[53] For such a challenge, which was once a common one with the Indians, could not possibly be declined.
Who acts: challenge · What happens: be, not decline · To what, where: common one, Indians, 53
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 (challenge), 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 53 | punct |
| 2 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 53 | punct |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 challenge | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 challenge | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 challenge | det |
| 7 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 53 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 one | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 one | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 challenge | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Indians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Indians | det |
| 17 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declined | punct |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 declined | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 declined | advmod |
| 21 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 23 declined | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 declined | aux:pass |
| 23 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Indians | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 53 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | such challenge | a common one | with the Indians; once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not decline | could · passive | the Indians not said here | possibly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» |
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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