The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 78

[68] The smoking of the pungent _weer_ is a very severe ordeal; and it is a disgrace to let any of the smoke escape from the mouth or nose.

Who acts: smoking, any · What happens: be, let, escape, smoke · To what, where: severe ordeal, disgrace, any, mouth, 68, pungent weer _

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 (smoking, any), 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 68	punct
2	68	68	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 68	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smoking	det
5	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ordeal	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 _	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 _	det
8	pungent	pungent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 _	amod
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 pungent	punct
10	weer	wee	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 _	amod
11	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smoking	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ordeal	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ordeal	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 severe	advmod
15	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ordeal	amod
16	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 68	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 disgrace	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 disgrace	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 disgrace	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 disgrace	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 disgrace	det
22	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 68	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 disgrace	acl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 let	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 smoke	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 smoke	det
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 any	nmod
29	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 mouth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mouth	det
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 escape	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 nose	cc
34	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mouth	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 68	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the smoking of the pungent weer _	a severe ordeal		tree rules
2	is a	present	smoking	a disgrace		tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive		any of the smoke		tree rules
4	escape	infinitive	any of the smoke not said here		the mouth or nose	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location
6	smoke			the pungent weer _		nom smoking «act 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 Accursed Lake, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 78