Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / The man who married the moon, and othe… / The Antelope Boy / 79

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 79

[12] I should state, by the way, that the cigarette plays an important part in the Pueblo folk-stories,--they never had the pipe of the Northern Indians,--and all rain-clouds are supposed to come from its smoke.

Who acts: 12, cigarette, cigarettes, way · What happens: state, play, not have, suppose, come, smoke · To what, where: important part, Pueblo folk stories, pipe, rain clouds, smoke

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 (12, cigarette, cigarettes, way), 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

punctnsubjpunctnsubjauxpunctcasedetoblpunctmarkdetnsubjconjdetamodobjcasedetcompoundcompoundpunctoblpunctpunctnsubjadvmodparataxisdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctpunctccdetcompoundpunctnsubj:passaux:passconjmarkxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctroot[PUNCT12NUM]PUNCTIPRONshouldAUXstateVERB,PUNCTbyADPtheDETwayNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJtheDETcigaretteNOUNplaysVERBanDETimportantADJpartNOUNinADPtheDETPuebloPROPNfolkNOUN-PUNCTstoriesNOUN,PUNCT--PUNCTtheyPRONneverADVhadVERBtheDETpipeNOUNofADPtheDETNorthernADJIndiansPROPN,PUNCT--PUNCTandCCONJallDETrainNOUN-PUNCTcloudsNOUNareAUXsupposedVERBtoPARTcomeVERBfromADPitsPRONsmokeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_6 statepunct
21212NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 statensubj
3]]PUNCT_2 12punct
4IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 statensubj
5shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 stateaux
6statestateVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 waypunct
8bybyADP_10 waycase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 waydet
10waywayNOUNNumber=Sing6 stateobl
11,,PUNCT_15 playspunct
12thatthatSCONJ_15 playsmark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 cigarettedet
14cigarettecigaretteNOUNNumber=Sing15 playsnsubj
15playsplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 stateconj
16anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 partdet
17importantimportantADJDegree=Pos18 partamod
18partpartNOUNNumber=Sing15 playsobj
19ininADP_24 storiescase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 storiesdet
21PuebloPuebloPROPNNumber=Sing24 storiescompound
22folkfolkNOUNNumber=Sing24 storiescompound
23--PUNCT_22 folkpunct
24storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur15 playsobl
25,,PUNCT_29 hadpunct
26----PUNCT_29 hadpunct
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 hadnsubj
28neverneverADVPronType=Neg29 hadadvmod
29hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 playsparataxis
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 pipedet
31pipepipeNOUNNumber=Sing29 hadobj
32ofofADP_35 Indianscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Indiansdet
34NorthernNorthernADJDegree=Pos35 Indiansamod
35IndiansIndianPROPNNumber=Plur31 pipenmod
36,,PUNCT_44 supposedpunct
37----PUNCT_44 supposedpunct
38andandCCONJ_44 supposedcc
39allallDETPronType=Tot42 cloudsdet
40rainrainNOUNNumber=Sing42 cloudscompound
41--PUNCT_40 rainpunct
42cloudscloudNOUNNumber=Plur44 supposednsubj:pass
43arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin44 supposedaux:pass
44supposedsupposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 hadconj
45totoPART_46 comemark
46comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf44 supposedxcomp
47fromfromADP_49 smokecase
48itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs49 smokenmod:poss
49smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing46 comeobl
50..PUNCT_6 statepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1state speech: othershould12by the way; I nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2playpresentthe cigarettea important partthe Pueblo folk storiesvn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3not havepastcigarettes = cigarettethe pipe of the Northern Indiansvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient
4supposepresent · passiveall rain cloudsvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5cometo-infinitiveway's smokevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from smoke=Initial_Location
6smokewaynom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/79/