The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 101
[79] The thunder is said by the Tée-wahn to be the sacred dance-rattle of their gods.
Who acts: Tée wahn · What happens: say, be · To what, where: thunder, sacred dance rattle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tée wahn), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 79 | punct |
| 2 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 said | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 79 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thunder | det |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 wahn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wahn | det |
| 10 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wahn | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tée | punct |
| 12 | wahn | wahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rattle | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rattle | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rattle | det |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rattle | amod |
| 17 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rattle | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 dance | punct |
| 19 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gods | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gods | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rattle | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the Tée wahn | the thunder | 79 obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Tée wahn not said here | the sacred dance rattle | of Trues's gods | 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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