The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 31
“Now,” said the chief witch, who was very angry, “we have caught you as a spy and we ought to kill you.
Who acts: chief witch · What happens: say, be, catch, kill · To what, where: we, you · 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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief witch), 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 | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 angry | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 angry | advmod |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 spy | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spy | det |
| 22 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ought | cc |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ought | nsubj |
| 25 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 kill | mark |
| 27 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ought | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 kill | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the chief witch | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the chief witch | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | we | as a spy; you obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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