The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 119
[90] A jar of magic water, in which the chief conjuror is supposed to see all that is going on in the world.
Who acts: that · What happens: suppose, see, go on · To what, where: chief conjuror, jar, world, 90 · 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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | _ | 2 90 | punct |
| 2 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 90 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jar | det |
| 5 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 90 | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jar | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 supposed | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 supposed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 conjuror | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conjuror | amod |
| 14 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 supposed | aux:pass |
| 16 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 jar | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 supposed | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 going | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 going | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 90 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | the chief conjuror | a jar of magic water | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go on | present · progressive | that | the world | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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