The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 16
It is a bad place at best: bleak, black, rough, and forbidding--just the place that a properly constituted Ogre would choose for his habitation.
Who acts: _, constituted Ogre · What happens: be, forbid, constitute, choose · To what, where: bad place, place
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, constituted Ogre), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 place | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 best | case |
| 7 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 place | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 bleak | punct |
| 9 | bleak | bleak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bleak | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rough | punct |
| 13 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 black | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forbidding | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forbidding | cc |
| 16 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 black | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 place | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bleak | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 choose | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Ogre | det |
| 23 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 24 constituted | advmod |
| 24 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Ogre | amod |
| 25 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 choose | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 choose | aux |
| 27 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 habitation | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 30 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 choose | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ | a bad place and bleak | bleak conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forbid | gerund | _ not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | constitute | participle | properly property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | choose | would | a constituted Ogre | the place | for T’ai's habitation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for habitation=Beneficiary |
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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