The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 124
Witchcraft is still a serious trouble in all the pueblos, despite the efforts of the medicine-men, whose special duty it is to keep down the witches.
Who acts: Witchcraft · What happens: be · To what, where: serious trouble, pueblos
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 (Witchcraft), 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 | Witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trouble | det |
| 5 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pueblos | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pueblos | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pueblos | det |
| 10 | pueblos | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trouble | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 efforts | punct |
| 12 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 14 efforts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 efforts | det |
| 14 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trouble | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 17 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 men | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 medicine | punct |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 efforts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 duty | punct |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 duty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 duty | amod |
| 23 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 men | appos |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keep | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keep | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 keep | mark |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 duty | acl:relcl |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 keep | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 witches | det |
| 30 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 keep | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Witchcraft | a serious trouble | all pueblos | still | despite the efforts of the medicine men | tree rules | |
| 2 | is | present | Witchcraft | the witches obj; keep 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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