The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 29
In those times there were no medicine-men in the world,--not even of the people,--and the animals found no cure.
Who acts: medicine men, animals · What happens: be, find · To what, where: cure
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 (medicine men, animals), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 times | det |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 men | det |
| 7 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 medicine | punct |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 people | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 people | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 men | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 animals | det |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 were | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 cure | det |
| 27 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no medicine men in the world | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | the animals | no cure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic |
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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