The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 18
Then its color is against it; and, still worse, it is to this day the common stamping-ground of all the witches in this part of the country, where they gather at night for their diabolical caucuses.
Who acts: _, witches · What happens: be, gather
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 (_, witches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 is | advmod |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 color | nmod:poss |
| 3 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worse | cop |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 worse | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 worse | advmod |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 day | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 day | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worse | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 19 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 20 | stamping | stamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ground | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 stamping | punct |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 witches | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 witches | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 witches | det |
| 26 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ground | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 part | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 part | det |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 witches | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 country | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 country | det |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gather | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 gather | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gather | nsubj |
| 36 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 country | acl:relcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gather | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 caucuses | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 caucuses | nmod:poss |
| 41 | diabolical | diabolical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 caucuses | amod |
| 42 | caucuses | caucus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gather | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | still | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | _ | to this day | the common stamping ground of all witches in this part of the country nmod | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gather | present | witches = witch | night | for witches's diabolical caucuses | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for caucus=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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