The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 50
They do nothing without some reason, generally a religious one, and whatever they observe they can explain in their own superstitious way.
Who acts: images · What happens: do, observe, explain · To what, where: nothing, own superstitious way
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 (images), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 do | obj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 reason | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 8 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reason | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whatever | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whatever | cc |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 do | conj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 observe | nsubj |
| 16 | observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 explain | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 explain | aux |
| 19 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 observe | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 23 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 explain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | images = image | nothing | without some reason; whatever conj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | observe | present | images = image | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | can | images = image | images's own superstitious way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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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