The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 130
One whose eyes or lids look red is always regarded with suspicion here, for witch-people are supposed not to sleep at night, but to change themselves into animals and roam over the world.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: look, regard, suppose, not sleep, change · To what, where: One, witch people, people
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 (eyes), 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 | 10 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 lids | cc |
| 5 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | conj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | acl:relcl |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 regarded | aux:pass |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 regarded | advmod |
| 10 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 suspicion | case |
| 12 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regarded | obl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 regarded | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 supposed | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 supposed | mark |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 witch | punct |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 supposed | aux:pass |
| 20 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 regarded | parataxis |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 supposed | xcomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 change | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 change | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 change | mark |
| 29 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 supposed | conj |
| 30 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 change | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 animals | case |
| 32 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 change | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 roam | cc |
| 34 | roam | roam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 animals | conj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roam | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | eyes or lids | red property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | regard | present · passive | One | here | with suspicion; always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | suppose | present · passive | witch people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not sleep | to-infinitive | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | people | into animals and roam over the world result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into animal=Result |
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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