The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 66
There were all the gods of the East, whose color is white, and the blue gods of the North, the yellow gods of the West, the red gods of the South, and the rainbow-colored gods of the Up, the Down, and the Center, all in human shape.
Who acts: gods, color · What happens: be, color
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods, color), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 gods | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gods | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 white | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 color | nmod:poss |
| 11 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 white | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 white | cop |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 East | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gods | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gods | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gods | det |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gods | amod |
| 18 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 North | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 North | det |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gods | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gods | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gods | det |
| 24 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gods | amod |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 North | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 West | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 West | det |
| 28 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gods | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gods | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gods | det |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gods | amod |
| 32 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 West | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 South | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 South | det |
| 35 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 gods | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 gods | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gods | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gods | det |
| 39 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 colored | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 rainbow | punct |
| 41 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 gods | amod |
| 42 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gods | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Up | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Up | det |
| 45 | Up | Up | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 gods | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Down | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Down | det |
| 48 | Down | Down | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Up | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Center | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Center | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Center | det |
| 52 | Center | Center | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Up | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 all | punct |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 Up | conj |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 shape | case |
| 56 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 shape | amod |
| 57 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 all | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | all gods of the East | there | the blue gods of the North and the yellow gods of the West and the colored gods of the Up and the Down and the Center nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | color | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | color | participle | rainbow compound | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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