The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 76
The distrust and discontent grew rapidly--for to this day nothing on earth will disrupt any Indian community so quickly or so surely as the belief that some of the people are witches.
Who acts: distrust, some · What happens: grow, disrupt, be · To what, where: Indian community, earth, 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 (distrust, some), 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 distrust | det |
| 2 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 discontent | cc |
| 4 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 distrust | conj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | compound |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 grew | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disrupt | obl |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 disrupt | aux |
| 16 | disrupt | disrupt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 nothing | parataxis |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 community | det |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 community | amod |
| 19 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disrupt | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 quickly | advmod |
| 21 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 disrupt | advmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 surely | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 surely | advmod |
| 24 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 21 quickly | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 belief | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 belief | det |
| 27 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surely | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 witches | mark |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 witches | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 people | det |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 some | nmod |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 witches | cop |
| 34 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 belief | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the distrust and discontent | nothing this conj; rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disrupt | future | any Indian community | earth | quickly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | some of the people | 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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