The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 30
On the third day Shó-kee-ah used his strongest spell, and it rained great icicles, until everything was buried under them.
Who acts: Shó, it · What happens: use, rain, bury, spell · To what, where: strongest spell, great icicles, everything
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 (Shó, it), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | obl |
| 5 | Shó | Shó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 used | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shó | punct |
| 7 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Shó | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ah | punct |
| 9 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 10 used | discourse |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spell | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 spell | amod |
| 13 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rained | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rained | nsubj |
| 17 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | parataxis |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 icicles | amod |
| 19 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rained | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 buried | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 buried | mark |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 buried | aux:pass |
| 24 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rained | conj |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 buried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Shó | Shó's strongest spell | day | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient | |||
| 2 | rain | past | it | great icicles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | everything | under icicles = icicle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | spell | Shó | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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