The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 126
In 1888 a very estimable Indian woman of that town was slain by them in the customary way,--shot through from side to side with an arrow,--and this form of execution is still practised.
Who acts: men, arrow · What happens: slay, practise, form · To what, where: estimable Indian woman, 1888, form, execution
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 (men, arrow), 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 | _ | 2 1888 | case |
| 2 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 slain | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 estimable | advmod |
| 5 | estimable | estimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux:pass |
| 12 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slain | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | compound |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shot | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 shot | punct |
| 21 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | parataxis |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shot | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 arrow | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 arrow | det |
| 29 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shot | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 practised | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 practised | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 practised | cc |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 form | det |
| 34 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 practised | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 execution | case |
| 36 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 form | nmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 practised | aux:pass |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 practised | advmod |
| 39 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · passive | men = man | a estimable Indian woman of that town | 1888 | in the customary way; shot through side to side with a arrow parataxis | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | practise | present · passive | a arrow not said here | this form of execution | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | form | execution | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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