The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 129
The case was kept out of the American courts only by the payment of a large sum to his parents by his accusers.
Who acts: accusers · What happens: keep out, pay · To what, where: case, American courts, large sum
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 (accusers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 case | det |
| 2 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 courts | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 courts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courts | det |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 courts | amod |
| 9 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obl |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 payment | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 payment | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 payment | det |
| 13 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sum | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sum | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sum | amod |
| 17 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 payment | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 parents | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sum | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 accusers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 accusers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | accusers | accuser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 payment | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep out | past · passive | the case | the American courts | the payment of a large sum to Isletan's parents by Isletan's accusers parataxis | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme court=Attribute | |||
| 2 | pay | Isletan's accusers | a large sum to Isletan's parents | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
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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