The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 19
Then he knew that the deer had all been witches, and that they had led him off on a false trail.
Who acts: chief, deer, witches · What happens: know, have, be, lead off · To what, where: witches, chief, false trail · 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 (chief, deer, witches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deer | det |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 witches | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 witches | cop |
| 10 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 led | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 led | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 led | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 led | aux |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 led | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 led | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 trail | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trail | det |
| 21 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trail | amod |
| 22 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | chief | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the deer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | witches | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lead off | past · perfect | witches = witch | chief | a false trail | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on trail=Destination |
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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