The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 17

In the first place, it is to the west of the town, which is “bad medicine” in itself to any Indian, for that point of the compass belongs to the dead and to bad spirits.

Who acts: _, town, point · What happens: be, belong, point · To what, where: first place, bad medicine, compass

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 (_, town, point), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 west	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 west	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 west	cop
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 west	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 west	det
10	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 west	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 medicine	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 medicine	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 medicine	cop
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 medicine	punct
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 medicine	amod
19	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 town	appos
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 medicine	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 itself	case
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 medicine	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Indian	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 Indian	det
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 belongs	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 point	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 point	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 point	det
29	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 belongs	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 compass	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 compass	det
32	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 point	nmod
33	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 west	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 dead	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dead	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 belongs	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spirits	cc
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 spirits	case
39	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 spirits	amod
40	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 dead	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 west	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	_		the first place	to the west; of the town	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the town	bad medicine		in _	tree rules
3	belong	present	that point of the compass			to any Indian; to the dead and bad spirits	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	point			the compass			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 17