The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 17
[110] A fixed belief among the Pueblos, who will tell none of their myths between the Spring Medicine-Making, in March, and the Fall Medicine-Making, in October, lest the rattlesnake punish them for some slip from the truth.
Who acts: fixed belief, none, Fall Medicine, rattlesnake · What happens: fix, tell, make, punish · To what, where: myths, 110 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fixed belief, none, Fall Medicine, rattlesnake), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 110 | punct |
| 2 | 110 | 110 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 110 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 belief | det |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 belief | amod |
| 6 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 110 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 Pueblos | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pueblos | det |
| 9 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 belief | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 belief | parataxis |
| 14 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 Making | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 myths | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 myths | nmod:poss |
| 17 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 none | nmod |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 Spring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Spring | det |
| 20 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 myths | nmod |
| 21 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Spring | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Medicine | punct |
| 23 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 March | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 March | case |
| 26 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Making | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Making | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Making | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Medicine | det |
| 30 | Fall | Fall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Medicine | compound |
| 31 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Making | nsubj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Medicine | punct |
| 33 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tell | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 October | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 October | case |
| 36 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 punish | punct |
| 38 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 41 punish | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rattlesnake | det |
| 40 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 punish | nsubj |
| 41 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 punish | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 slip | case |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 slip | det |
| 45 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 punish | obl |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 truth | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 truth | det |
| 48 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 slip | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 110 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | a fixed belief among the Pueblos | october | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | none of Pueblos's myths between the Spring | march | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the Fall Medicine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | punish | infinitive | the rattlesnake | myths = myth | for some slip from the truth | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient for slip=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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