The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 75
That was the beginning of the downfall of Poo-reh-tú-ai; for the people grew fearful of one another, lest there might be many more witches, unbeknown, among them.
Who acts: That, people · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: beginning, many more witches
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 (That, people), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beginning | det |
| 4 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 downfall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 downfall | det |
| 7 | downfall | downfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Poo | case |
| 9 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 downfall | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Poo | punct |
| 11 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tú | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 reh | punct |
| 13 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 downfall | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ai | punct |
| 15 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tú | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | conj |
| 21 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fearful | obl |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 one | fixed |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 witches | punct |
| 26 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 29 be | mark |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 be | expl |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 be | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 witches | cop |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 witches | amod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 witches | amod |
| 32 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 unbeknown | punct |
| 34 | unbeknown | unbeknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 witches | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 them | punct |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grew | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the beginning | of the downfall of Poo and reh tú and ai | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the people | among witches = witch; fearful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | many more witches | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | 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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