The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 48
Besides the highest deities, all the forces of nature, all animals, as well as many things that are inanimate, are invested by them with supernatural powers.
Who acts: many things, animals · What happens: be, invest
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many things, animals), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 4 deities | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deities | det |
| 3 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 deities | amod |
| 4 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 invested | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forces | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 forces | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forces | det |
| 8 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deities | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forces | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 animals | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 animals | det |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deities | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 things | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 things | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deities | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 inanimate | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 inanimate | cop |
| 22 | inanimate | inanimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deities | punct |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 invested | aux:pass |
| 25 | invested | invest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 invested | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 powers | case |
| 29 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 powers | amod |
| 30 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 invested | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 invested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many things | inanimate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invest | present · passive | animals = animal | besides the highest deities and all animals as many things; with supernatural powers | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with power=Theme |
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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