The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 77
In a very short time the people decided to abandon Poo-reh-tú-ai altogether.
Who acts: people · What happens: decide, abandon · To what, where: Poo
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 decided | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 decided | nsubj |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 abandon | mark |
| 10 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decided | xcomp |
| 11 | Poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abandon | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Poo | punct |
| 13 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 reh | punct |
| 15 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tú | punct |
| 17 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abandon | obj |
| 18 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 10 abandon | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the people | time | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | abandon not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people not said here | Poo | reh tú ai obj; altogether property | 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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