The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 67
Beyond their seats were all the sacred animals--the buffalo, the bear, the eagle, the badger, the mountain lion, the rattlesnake, and all the others that are powerful in medicine.
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: sacred animals, medicine
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 (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 3 seats | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 seats | nmod:poss |
| 3 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 animals | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animals | det |
| 7 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 buffalo | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 buffalo | det |
| 11 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animals | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bear | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animals | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eagle | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 badger | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 badger | det |
| 20 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lion | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lion | compound |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 badger | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rattlesnake | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rattlesnake | det |
| 27 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lion | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 others | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 others | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 others | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 others | det |
| 32 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 powerful | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 powerful | cop |
| 35 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 others | amod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 medicine | case |
| 37 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 powerful | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all sacred animals and the buffalo | beyond gods's seats; all others nmod; the buffalo conj; the bear and the eagle and the badger appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | medicine | powerful property | 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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