The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 49
They believe such use of this sacred herb propitiates the spirits and keeps off the terrible _soroche_, or mountain-sickness; and that it also makes veins of metal easier to be worked--softening the stone, even as it did for Tái-oh.
Who acts: leaves, such use, use · What happens: believe, propitiate, keep off, make, work, soften · To what, where: spirits, terrible _ soroche, veins, stone, sacred herb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, such use, use), 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 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 use | amod |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 propitiates | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 herb | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 herb | det |
| 7 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 herb | amod |
| 8 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | nmod |
| 9 | propitiates | propitiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spirits | det |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 propitiates | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keeps | cc |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 propitiates | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 soroche | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soroche | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soroche | amod |
| 17 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soroche | compound |
| 18 | soroche | soroche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sickness | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 sickness | cc |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sickness | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mountain | punct |
| 24 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 makes | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 makes | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 makes | nsubj |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 makes | advmod |
| 30 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 31 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 makes | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 metal | case |
| 33 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 veins | nmod |
| 34 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 makes | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 worked | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 worked | aux:pass |
| 37 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 easier | advcl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 softening | punct |
| 39 | softening | soften | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 makes | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 stone | det |
| 41 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 softening | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 did | punct |
| 43 | even | even | ADV | _ | 46 did | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 did | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 did | nsubj |
| 46 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 softening | advcl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 Tái | case |
| 48 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 did | parataxis |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Tái | punct |
| 50 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 48 Tái | discourse |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | leaves = leaf | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | propitiate | present | such use of this sacred herb | the spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep off | present | such use of this sacred herb not said here | the terrible _ soroche | mountain sickness obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soroche=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | present | use | veins of metal | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material vein=Product | |||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive · passive | use not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | soften | gerund | use not said here | the stone | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do | past | use | Tái parataxis | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | use | this sacred herb | nom use «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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