The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 132

The fact that they doubt whether Americans know enough to be first-class witches was largely instrumental in saving me from serious danger.

Who acts: actions, Americans, fact · What happens: doubt, know, be, save · To what, where: fact, enough class witches, me, serious danger

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 (actions, Americans, fact), 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 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 instrumental	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 doubt	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doubt	nsubj
5	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fact	acl
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
7	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doubt	advcl
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witches	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 first	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 first	cop
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 class	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 witches	compound
15	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	obj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 instrumental	cop
17	largely	largely	ADV	_	18 instrumental	advmod
18	instrumental	instrumental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 saving	mark
20	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 instrumental	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 saving	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 danger	case
23	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 danger	amod
24	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saving	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 instrumental	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	doubt	present	actions = action	the fact not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme
2	know	present	Americans	enough class witches			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive				first property	tree rules
4	is	past	the fact			instrumental, largely property	tree rules
5	save	gerund	the fact not said here	me	serious danger		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from danger=Source

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 132