The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 43
[9] Each village was to stake all its property and the lives of all its people on the result of the race.
Who acts: village · What happens: be, result · To what, where: 9, race
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village), 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 9 | punct |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 4 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stake | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stake | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stake | mark |
| 8 | stake | stake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 9 | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 property | det:predet |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 property | nmod:poss |
| 11 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stake | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lives | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lives | det |
| 14 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 property | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lives | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 result | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 result | det |
| 21 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 race | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 race | det |
| 24 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 result | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | each village | village's property and the lives of village's people on the result of the race obj; stake property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | result | the race | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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