The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 81
Knowing the witchcraft of their neighbors, the people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee had made the condition that, in whatever shape the racers might run the rest of the course, they must resume human form upon arrival at a certain hill upon the fourth turn, which was in sight of the goal.
Who acts: bah tóo, condition, racers, fourth turn · What happens: know, make, run, resume, be · To what, where: witchcraft, ee, rest, shape, human form, certain hill
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 (bah tóo, condition, racers, fourth turn), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witchcraft | det |
| 3 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 neighbors | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 witchcraft | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tóo | case |
| 11 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 15 tóo | discourse |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nah | punct |
| 13 | bah | bah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tóo | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bah | punct |
| 15 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ee | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 ee | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 19 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tóo | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 condition | det |
| 23 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 run | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 that | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 shape | case |
| 27 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 28 shape | det |
| 28 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 run | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 racers | det |
| 30 | racers | racer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 run | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 run | aux |
| 32 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 condition | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rest | det |
| 34 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 run | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 course | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 course | det |
| 37 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rest | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 resume | punct |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 resume | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 resume | aux |
| 41 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 run | conj |
| 42 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 form | amod |
| 43 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 resume | obj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 arrival | case |
| 45 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 resume | obl |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 hill | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 hill | det |
| 48 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hill | amod |
| 49 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 resume | obl |
| 50 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 turn | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 turn | det |
| 52 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 53 turn | amod |
| 53 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 resume | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 sight | punct |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 sight | nsubj |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 sight | cop |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 sight | case |
| 58 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 turn | appos |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 goal | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 goal | det |
| 61 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 sight | nmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the witchcraft of cigarettes's neighbors | the people of bah tóo obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | bah tóo not said here | ee | the condition obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary condition=Product | |||
| 3 | run | might | the condition | the rest of the course | whatever shape | the racers nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in shape=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | resume | must | racers = racer | human form | a certain hill | upon arrival; upon the fourth turn | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | is | past | the fourth turn | sight | of the goal | 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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