The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 63
An invitation--or rather a challenge--of that sort must be accepted under all Indian etiquette; and the witch-sisters agreed.
Who acts: witch sisters · What happens: accept, agree, invite · To what, where: invitation, Indian etiquette, sort
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 (witch sisters), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 invitation | det |
| 2 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 challenge | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 challenge | cc |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 challenge | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 challenge | det |
| 7 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invitation | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 invitation | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sort | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invitation | nmod |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 accepted | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 accepted | aux:pass |
| 14 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 etiquette | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 etiquette | det |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 etiquette | amod |
| 18 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accepted | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 agreed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 agreed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sisters | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sisters | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 witch | punct |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 agreed | nsubj |
| 25 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 accepted | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | must · passive | a invitation of that sort or a challenge | all Indian etiquette | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the witch sisters | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | invite | that sort | nom invitation «communication 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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