The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 41
The Indians were greatly astonished; and one of them, who was a medicine-man, began to suspect that there was something wrong.
Who acts: Indians, one, something · What happens: be, begin, suspect · To what, where: medicine man
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 (Indians, one, something), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 began | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 man | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 medicine | punct |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 suspect | mark |
| 21 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 suspect | ccomp |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 was | nsubj |
| 26 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 something | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Indians | astonished, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a medicine man | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | one of Indians | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | suspect | to-infinitive | one of Indians not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | past | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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