The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 9
[99] They are represented in the sacred dances by the Káh-pee-óo-nin, “the Dying-of-Cold” (because they are always naked except for the breech-clout).
Who acts: pee óo nin, Tée · What happens: represent, be · To what, where: Tée
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pee óo nin, Tée), 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 99 | punct |
| 2 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 represented | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 99 | punct |
| 4 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 represented | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 represented | aux:pass |
| 6 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dances | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dances | det |
| 9 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dances | amod |
| 10 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represented | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 nin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nin | det |
| 13 | Káh | Káh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 nin | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Káh | punct |
| 15 | pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pee | punct |
| 17 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 nin | punct |
| 19 | nin | nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 represented | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Cold | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Cold | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dying | det |
| 23 | Dying | Dying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cold | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Cold | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Cold | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 of | punct |
| 27 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nin | parataxis |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Cold | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 naked | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 naked | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 naked | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 naked | cop |
| 33 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 34 naked | advmod |
| 34 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 represented | conj |
| 35 | except | except | ADP | _ | 40 clout | case |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 clout | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 clout | det |
| 38 | breech | breech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 clout | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 breech | punct |
| 40 | clout | clout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 naked | obl |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 naked | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the pee óo nin Káh | Tée | in the sacred dances; 99 obl | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme in dance=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | Tée | except the breech clout; always, naked 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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