The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 5
By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I had shaken off that strange, ignorant prejudice against all that is unknown--which seems to be inborn in all of us--and wondered that I could ever have believed in that brutal maxim, worthy only of worse than savages, that “A good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: live, shake off, be, seem, wonder, believe · To what, where: Pueblos, strange ignorant prejudice, all, brutal maxim · 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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lived | aux |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 Pueblos | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pueblos | det |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 Pueblos | advmod |
| 13 | Pueblos | Pueblos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shaken | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 shaken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shaken | aux |
| 17 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lived | advcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 prejudice | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 prejudice | nsubj |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prejudice | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strange | punct |
| 22 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prejudice | amod |
| 23 | prejudice | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shaken | obl |
| 24 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 28 unknown | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 unknown | det:predet |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 unknown | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unknown | cop |
| 28 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shaken | advcl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 seems | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 seems | nsubj |
| 31 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unknown | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 inborn | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 inborn | cop |
| 34 | inborn | inborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seems | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 all | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 inborn | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 all | nmod |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 wondered | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 wondered | cc |
| 41 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | parataxis |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 believed | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 believed | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 believed | aux |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 believed | advmod |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 believed | aux |
| 47 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 wondered | advcl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 maxim | case |
| 49 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 maxim | det |
| 50 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 maxim | amod |
| 51 | maxim | maxim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 believed | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 worthy | punct |
| 53 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 maxim | appos |
| 54 | only | only | ADV | _ | 56 worse | advmod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 worse | case |
| 56 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 53 worthy | parataxis |
| 57 | than | than | ADP | _ | 58 savages | case |
| 58 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 worse | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 Indian | punct |
| 60 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 68 Indian | nsubj |
| 61 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 Indian | punct |
| 62 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 Indian | det |
| 63 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 Indian | amod |
| 64 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 Indian | nsubj |
| 65 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 68 Indian | cop |
| 66 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 Indian | det |
| 67 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 Indian | amod |
| 68 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wondered | conj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 70 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund · perfect | the Pueblos | time | however, long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pueblos=Location | |||
| 2 | shake off | past · perfect | I | strange ignorant prejudice that | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prejudice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | unknown property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | which nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | all of us | inborn property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | past | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | believe | could · perfect | I | that brutal maxim | ever | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | that | indian property | 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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