The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 79
[69] Two being the usual number given a candidate for initiation into a medicine order.
Who acts: 69, usual number · What happens: be, give · To what, where: usual number, candidate, medicine order
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 (69, usual number), 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 69 | punct |
| 2 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 number | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 69 | punct |
| 4 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 69 | flat |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 number | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 number | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 candidate | det |
| 11 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 initiation | case |
| 13 | initiation | initiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 order | det |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 order | compound |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | 69 | the usual number | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the usual number not said here | a candidate | a medicine order | for initiation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme for initiation=Asset |
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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