The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 39
Then he knew that he had been bewitched by the chief of those that have the evil road, and that he must die.
Who acts: frog, chief · What happens: know, bewitch, have, die · To what, where: frog, evil road · 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 (frog, chief), 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 | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bewitched | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bewitched | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bewitched | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 8 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bewitched | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 chief | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 die | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 die | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 die | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 die | aux |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | frog | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bewitch | past · perfect · passive | the chief of those | frog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the evil road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | |||||
| 4 | die | must | frog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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