The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 62
In some cases, the sacred smoking-herb was used.
What happens: use · To what, where: sacred smoking herb, cases
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: 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 cases | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 cases | det |
| 3 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cases | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 herb | det |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herb | amod |
| 7 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 herb | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 smoking | punct |
| 9 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the sacred smoking herb | some cases | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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