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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 state | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 12 | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 state | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | aux |
| 6 | state | state | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plays | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 plays | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cigarette | det |
| 14 | cigarette | cigarette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plays | nsubj |
| 15 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 17 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plays | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stories | det |
| 21 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | compound |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 folk | punct |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 plays | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 had | advmod |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 plays | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pipe | det |
| 31 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Indians | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Indians | det |
| 34 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Indians | amod |
| 35 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 pipe | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 supposed | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 supposed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 supposed | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 clouds | det |
| 40 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 clouds | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 rain | punct |
| 42 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 supposed | aux:pass |
| 44 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 had | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 come | mark |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 supposed | xcomp |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 smoke | case |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 smoke | nmod:poss |
| 49 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 come | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | should | 12 | by the way; I nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | present | the cigarette | a important part | the Pueblo folk stories | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 3 | not have | past | cigarettes = cigarette | the pipe of the Northern Indians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | suppose | present · passive | all rain clouds | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | way's smoke | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from smoke=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | smoke | way | nom 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.
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