The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 14
His beautiful pelt is an important part of the costume worn in many of the sacred dances of the Tée-wahn.
Who acts: beautiful pelt · What happens: be, wear, dance · To what, where: important part, costume, many, Tée wahn
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful pelt), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pelt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pelt | amod |
| 3 | pelt | pelt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 costume | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 costume | det |
| 10 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 costume | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 many | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 worn | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dances | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dances | det |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dances | amod |
| 17 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 many | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wahn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wahn | det |
| 20 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wahn | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tée | punct |
| 22 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dances | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fox's beautiful pelt | a important part | of the costume | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | participle | the costume not said here | many of the sacred dances of the Tée wahn | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | the Tée wahn | nom dance «communication 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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