The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 45
[8] That is, were witches.
What happens: be · To what, where: 8 witches
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: 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 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 witches | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 8 | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 witches | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 witches | cop |
| 8 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 witches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 8 witches | 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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