The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 46

[9] The Pueblos believed it was an immense plain whereon the racers were to race over a square course--to the extreme east, then to the extreme north, and so on, back to the starting-point.

Who acts: Pueblos, pueblo, racers · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: 9, immense plain, square course · 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 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 (Pueblos, pueblo, racers), 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	6 believed	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pueblos	det
5	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 believed	nsubj
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 plain	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 plain	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plain	det
10	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plain	amod
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	ccomp
12	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	17 race	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 racers	det
14	racers	racer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 race	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 race	cop
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 race	case
17	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plain	nmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 course	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 course	det
20	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 course	amod
21	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 race	nmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 east	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 east	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 east	det
25	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 east	amod
26	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plain	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 north	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 north	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 north	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 north	det
31	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 north	amod
32	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plain	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 on	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 on	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 on	advmod
36	on	on	ADV	_	6 believed	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 back	punct
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 on	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 point	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 point	det
41	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 point	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 starting	punct
43	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 back	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the Pueblos	9			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	pueblo	a immense plain and the extreme east and the extreme north		the extreme east conj; the extreme north conj	tree rules
3	is	past	the racers		a square course	to race; whereon property	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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 46