The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 52
They made a strong law that from that time the body of the Field-Mouse should be held sacred, so that no animal dares to kill him or even to touch him dead.
Who acts: Captains, animal · What happens: make, hold, dare, kill, touch · To what, where: strong law, T’hoo
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 (Captains, animal), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 law | amod |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 held | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mouse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mouse | det |
| 14 | Field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Mouse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Field | punct |
| 16 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 body | nmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 held | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 held | aux:pass |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 law | acl:relcl |
| 20 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 held | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dares | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 dares | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 animal | det |
| 25 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dares | nsubj |
| 26 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dares | xcomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 touch | cc |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 touch | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 touch | mark |
| 33 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 kill | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 touch | obj |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 touch | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Captains = captain | a strong law | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | ||||
| 2 | hold | should · passive | a strong law | time | the body of the Field Mouse nsubj:pass; sacred property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | dare | present | no animal | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | no animal not said here | T’hoo = t'hoo | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | touch | to-infinitive | no animal not said here | T’hoo = t'hoo | dead property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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