The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 90
Then the evil-spirited ones began to make medicine, and turned themselves into bears, coyotes, crows, owls, and other animals.
Who acts: spirited ones · What happens: begin, make, turn · To what, where: medicine, Believers, bears
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 (spirited ones), 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 | 7 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spirited | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 evil | punct |
| 5 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 bears | case |
| 16 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coyotes | punct |
| 18 | coyotes | coyote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bears | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crows | punct |
| 20 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 coyotes | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 owls | punct |
| 22 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 coyotes | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 animals | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 animals | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animals | amod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the spirited ones | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the spirited ones not said here | medicine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the spirited ones not said here | Believers = believer | bears and coyotes and crows and owls | other animals obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into bear=Trajectory |
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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