The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 15

[58] A challenge of this sort, with life as the stake, was very common among all Indians; and it was impossible for the challenged to decline.

Who acts: 58 challenge · What happens: be, challenge, decline · To what, where: sort

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (58 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 58	punct
2	58	58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 challenge	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 58	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 challenge	det
5	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 common	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sort	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sort	det
8	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 challenge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 life	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 life	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 challenge	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 stake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stake	det
14	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 challenge	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 common	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 common	advmod
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 Indians	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Indians	det
21	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 common	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 impossible	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 impossible	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 impossible	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 impossible	cop
26	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 common	conj
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 challenged	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 challenged	det
29	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 impossible	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 decline	mark
31	decline	decline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 challenged	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a 58 challenge of this sort and life as the stake		among all Indians; common property	tree rules
2	is	past	a 58 challenge of this sort and life as the stake not said here		impossible property	tree rules
3	challenge	participle	a 58 challenge of this sort and life as the stake not said here			tree rules
4	decline	to-infinitive	a 58 challenge of this sort and life as the stake not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	challenge			this sort		nom challenge «state transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 15