The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 13
For to-morrow is _Tu-shée-wim_, the Spring Medicine-Dance; and the snakes are coming out from their winter houses.
Who acts: snakes · What happens: be, come out · To what, where: Tu shée wim, winter houses
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wim | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wim | cop |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 wim | punct |
| 7 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wim | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tu | punct |
| 9 | shée | shée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wim | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 shée | punct |
| 11 | wim | wim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 wim | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dance | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dance | det |
| 15 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dance | nsubj |
| 16 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dance | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dance | punct |
| 18 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wim | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 coming | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snakes | det |
| 22 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | aux |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wim | appos |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 coming | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 houses | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 houses | nmod:poss |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 houses | compound |
| 29 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 coming | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tu shée wim | for morrow; the Medicine Dance Spring obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | present · progressive | the snakes | snakes's winter houses | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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