The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 27
The challenge was for life or death; whichever side won was to kill the others without being resisted.
Who acts: challenge, side · What happens: be, win, resist
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 (challenge, side), 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 challenge | det |
| 2 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 death | cc |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 won | punct |
| 9 | whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | nsubj |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | parataxis |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 won | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | obj |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 resisted | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 resisted | aux:pass |
| 19 | resisted | resist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kill | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the challenge | for life or death; death conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | past | whichever side | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | whichever side not said here | the others obj; kill property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resist | gerund · passive | whichever side not said here | tree rules |
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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