The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 43
This looks suspiciously as if the whole myth of the Ogres had sprung from the attacks of the cruel Apaches and Navajos in the old days.
Who acts: This · What happens: look, spring, attack · To what, where: whole myth, attacks, cruel Apaches
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | suspiciously | suspiciously | ADV | _ | 2 looks | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 sprung | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 sprung | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 myth | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 myth | amod |
| 8 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ogres | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ogres | det |
| 11 | Ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 myth | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sprung | aux |
| 13 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looks | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 attacks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 attacks | det |
| 16 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sprung | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Apaches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Apaches | det |
| 19 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Apaches | amod |
| 20 | Apaches | apache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 attacks | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Navajos | cc |
| 22 | Navajos | Navajos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Apaches | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Apaches | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | This | suspiciously property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spring | past · perfect · passive | the whole myth of the Ogres | the attacks of the cruel Apaches in the old days and Navajos | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | attack | the cruel Apaches in the old days and Navajos | nom attack «act 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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