The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 27
Shó-kee-ah “made medicine,” and caused a driving sleet and a bitter wind that froze all waters.
Who acts: bitter wind · What happens: make, cause, freeze · To what, where: kee, driving sleet, waters
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter wind), 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 | Shó | Shó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | vocative |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shó | punct |
| 3 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 5 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 made | discourse |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caused | cc |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sleet | det |
| 14 | driving | driving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleet | compound |
| 15 | sleet | sleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wind | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 18 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wind | amod |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleet | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 froze | nsubj |
| 21 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wind | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 waters | det |
| 23 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 froze | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | participle · passive | kee | Shó vocative; medicine obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary medicine=Product | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | a driving sleet and a bitter wind | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sleet=Patient | |||||
| 3 | freeze | past | a bitter wind | all waters | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result |
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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