The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 1
TO-NIGHT it is withered Diego[15] who begins with his story, in the musical but strange Tée-wahn tongue, of “Shée-choon t’o-ah-fuar.”
What happens: wither, begin · To what, where: it, musical Tée wahn tongue
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. 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 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 3 NIGHT | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 TO | punct |
| 3 | NIGHT | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withered | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 withered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 withered | aux:pass |
| 6 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 withered | obj |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 15 | punct |
| 9 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 withered | obl |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 15 | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 15 | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begins | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tongue | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tongue | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tongue | det |
| 19 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tongue | amod |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 strange | cc |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 musical | conj |
| 22 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tongue | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tée | punct |
| 24 | wahn | wahn | X | _ | 25 tongue | compound |
| 25 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 t’o | punct |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 t’o | case |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 t’o | punct |
| 29 | Shée | Shée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 choon | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Shée | punct |
| 31 | choon | choon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 t’o | compound |
| 32 | t’o | t'o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tongue | appos |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 fuar | punct |
| 34 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 36 fuar | discourse |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 fuar | punct |
| 36 | fuar | fuar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 t’o | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 t’o | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 t’o | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | present · passive | it | the musical Tée wahn tongue | night | 15 obl; Diego obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | begin | present | with Diego's story; who nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with story=Subeventuality |
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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