The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 44
There was one queer thing about these Ogres--on their forages they always wore buckskin masks, just like those of the _Abuelos_ of the sacred dance.
Who acts: one queer thing, Ogres · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: buckskin masks, forages
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 (one queer thing, Ogres), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 4 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 Ogres | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 Ogres | det |
| 8 | Ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thing | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 wore | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 forages | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 forages | nmod:poss |
| 12 | forages | forage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 wore | advmod |
| 15 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 masks | compound |
| 17 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 those | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 those | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 masks | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Abuelos | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Abuelos | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Abuelos | punct |
| 25 | Abuelos | Abuelos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 those | nmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 those | punct |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dance | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dance | det |
| 29 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dance | amod |
| 30 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one queer thing about this Ogres | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | Ogres = ogre | buckskin masks | Ogres's forages | like those of the Abuelos; always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme |
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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