The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 22
Ignorant Americans would probably have taken it for a volcanic emission; but the good people of Shee-eh-whíb-bak knew better.
Who acts: Ignorant Americans, good people · What happens: take, know · To what, where: smoke
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 (Ignorant Americans, good people), 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 | Ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Americans | amod |
| 2 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 emission | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 emission | det |
| 10 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 emission | amod |
| 11 | emission | emission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bak | case |
| 18 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bak | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shee | punct |
| 20 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bak | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 whíb | punct |
| 22 | whíb | whíb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bak | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 whíb | punct |
| 24 | bak | bak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | nmod |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | conj |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 knew | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would · perfect | Ignorant Americans | smoke | for a volcanic emission; probably property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for emission=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | know | past | the good people of eh whíb bak Shee | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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