The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 125
One little pueblo called Sandia is dying out--as many others have done before it--because the medicine-men are quietly killing those whom they suspect of being witches.
Who acts: One little pueblo, many others, medicine men, men · What happens: call, die out, do, kill, suspect, be · To what, where: One little pueblo, those · 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 (One little pueblo, many others, medicine men, men), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pueblo | nummod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pueblo | amod |
| 3 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dying | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pueblo | acl |
| 5 | Sandia | Sandia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dying | aux |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 dying | compound:prt |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 others | amod |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 dying | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 killing | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 killing | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 20 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 medicine | punct |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 killing | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 killing | aux |
| 24 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 25 killing | advmod |
| 25 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 done | advcl |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 killing | obj |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 suspect | obj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 suspect | nsubj |
| 29 | suspect | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 those | acl:relcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 witches | case |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 witches | cop |
| 32 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 suspect | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | One little pueblo not said here | Sandia xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die out | present · progressive | One little pueblo | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | many others | before pueblo | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | present · progressive | the medicine men | those | quietly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 5 | suspect | present | men = man | whom obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | is | gerund | of 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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