The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 2
Serious as that looks, it means only “the war-dance of the Mice.”
Who acts: that, story · What happens: look, mean, dance · To what, where: Mice
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: who acts (that, story), 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 | Serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looks | advcl |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 looks | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looks | conj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 dance | advmod |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dance | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dance | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 war | punct |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mice | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mice | det |
| 16 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dance | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | story | the war dance of the Mice ccomp | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance in a quote | the Mice | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=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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