The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 44
So powerful were the witches of Nah-choo-rée-too-ee that they felt safe in proposing so serious a stake; and the people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee were ashamed to decline the challenge.
Who acts: ee, people · What happens: be, feel, propose, decline · To what, where: powerful witches, ee, serious stake, challenge
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 (ee, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 powerful | advmod |
| 2 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witches | amod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 witches | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witches | det |
| 5 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ee | case |
| 7 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 15 ee | discourse |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nah | punct |
| 9 | choo | choo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rée | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 choo | punct |
| 11 | rée | rée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ee | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ee | punct |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 ee | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 too | punct |
| 15 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 witches | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 felt | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ee | acl:relcl |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 proposing | mark |
| 21 | proposing | propose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 serious | advmod |
| 23 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stake | amod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stake | det |
| 25 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proposing | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 ashamed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ashamed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 ashamed | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 tóo | case |
| 31 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 35 tóo | discourse |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Nah | punct |
| 33 | bah | bah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tóo | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 bah | punct |
| 35 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 people | nmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 too | punct |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 ee | advmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 too | punct |
| 39 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tóo | nmod |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 ashamed | cop |
| 41 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witches | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 decline | mark |
| 43 | decline | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ashamed | xcomp |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 challenge | det |
| 45 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 decline | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 witches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the powerful witches | of ee choo rée | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | ee | ee choo rée | safe property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | propose | gerund | ee not said here | a serious stake | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the people of bah tóo ee | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | decline | to-infinitive | the people of bah tóo ee not said here | the challenge | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=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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