The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 99
For twelve days and twelve nights he and the men stayed shut up in the _estufa_, for two days fasting, and one day making the medicine-dance, and then fasting and then dancing again, as our medicine-men do to this day.
Who acts: T’hoo, medicine men · What happens: stay, shut up, fast, make, dance, do · To what, where: estufa, medicine dance
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 (T’hoo, medicine men), 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 | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stayed | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nights | cc |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 men | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 he | conj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stayed | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 estufa | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 estufa | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 estufa | punct |
| 17 | estufa | estufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fasting | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 fasting | mark |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fasting | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stayed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 making | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 making | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 day | nummod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 making | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stayed | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dance | det |
| 30 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dance | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 medicine | punct |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 making | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fasting | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fasting | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 fasting | advmod |
| 36 | fasting | fast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 making | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dancing | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 dancing | advmod |
| 39 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 making | conj |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 dancing | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 do | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 do | mark |
| 43 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 men | nmod:poss |
| 44 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 men | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 medicine | punct |
| 46 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 do | nsubj |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stayed | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 day | case |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 day | det |
| 50 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 do | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | T’hoo = t'hoo | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut up | participle | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | the estufa | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fast | gerund | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | the medicine dance | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product | |||
| 5 | fast | gerund | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dance | gerund | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | then; again | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | present | our medicine men | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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