The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 18
They decided, no doubt, that he was _oó-teh_, the Tée-wahn word for “a mean old thing”; and finally one proposed that they put him out of the way, for both sisters, young and pretty as they were, were witches.
Who acts: girls, Poo · What happens: decide, be, propose, put · To what, where: doubt, oó, Poo, way · 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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, Poo), 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 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubt | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 doubt | det |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decided | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 oó | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 oó | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 oó | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 oó | cop |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 oó | punct |
| 11 | oó | oó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decided | ccomp |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 teh | punct |
| 13 | teh | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art Typo=Yes | 11 oó | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 teh | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 word | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 17 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 word | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tée | punct |
| 19 | wahn | wahn | X | _ | 20 word | compound |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oó | appos |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 thing | case |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 thing | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thing | det |
| 24 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thing | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thing | amod |
| 26 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 word | nmod |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 thing | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 one | cc |
| 30 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 31 one | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 decided | conj |
| 32 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 one | acl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 put | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | nsubj |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 proposed | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | obj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 way | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 way | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 way | det |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sisters | punct |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 sisters | case |
| 43 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 sisters | det |
| 44 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 young | punct |
| 46 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sisters | amod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 pretty | cc |
| 48 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 young | conj |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 54 witches | case |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 witches | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 witches | cop |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 witches | punct |
| 53 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 witches | cop |
| 54 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 young | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | girls = girl | no doubt | one conj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Poo | oó | the Tée wahn word for a mean old thing appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | put | past | girls = girl | Poo | the way | for both sisters | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out way=Destination | ||
| 5 | is | past | girls = girl | as witches | tree rules |
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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