The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 116
Soon the devils met, and the two young ones told their chief that the spring had been opened and the girl cured, and that neither could ever be bewitched again.
Who acts: devils, two young ones · What happens: meet, tell, open, cure, bewitch · To what, where: chief, spring, girl · 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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils, two young 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 met | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devils | det |
| 3 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ones | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ones | nummod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 opened | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spring | det |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 opened | aux:pass |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cured | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 opened | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bewitched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bewitched | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 bewitched | mark |
| 27 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 31 bewitched | advmod |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 bewitched | aux |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 bewitched | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 31 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 met | conj |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 bewitched | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the devils | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the two young ones | friends's chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | open | past · perfect · passive | the spring | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cure | participle · passive | the girl | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | |||||
| 5 | bewitch | could · passive | the devils not said here | ever; again | neither property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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