The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 76
“Now,” said the True, “the evil-spirited ones will have this medicine-making contest in the _estufa_,[78] and when you enter, you five, you must all be dressed in these clothes.
Who acts: evil spirited ones, you · What happens: say, have, make, enter, dress · To what, where: True, making contest, estufa, you, clothes · 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 (evil spirited ones, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 True | det |
| 7 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ones | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 evil | punct |
| 13 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 contest | det |
| 18 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 medicine | punct |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 contest | amod |
| 21 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 estufa | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 estufa | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 estufa | punct |
| 25 | estufa | estufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 contest | nmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 78 | punct |
| 28 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 29 78 | punct |
| 29 | 78 | 78 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 29 78 | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dressed | cc |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 enter | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 enter | nsubj |
| 34 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 dressed | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enter | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 five | nsubj |
| 37 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 enter | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enter | punct |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 dressed | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 dressed | aux |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 dressed | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 dressed | aux:pass |
| 43 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 clothes | case |
| 45 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 clothes | det |
| 46 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 dressed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the True | now | 78 ccomp | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | the evil spirited ones | this making contest | the estufa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Patient | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | gerund | medicine compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | enter in a quote | present | you | five you parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dress in a quote | must · passive | you | this clothes | all property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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