The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 26
That was the time when the Mice conquered men; and that is the reason why we have never been able to drive the Mice out of our homes to this day.
Who acts: That, Mice, we · What happens: be, conquer, not be, drive · To what, where: time, men, reason, Mice, homes
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, Mice, we), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 conquered | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mice | det |
| 7 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conquered | nsubj |
| 8 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conquered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 reason | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reason | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 reason | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reason | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reason | det |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | parataxis |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 able | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reason | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drive | mark |
| 23 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mice | det |
| 25 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drive | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 homes | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 homes | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 homes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drive | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drive | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conquer | past | the Mice | men | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present · perfect | we | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drive | to-infinitive | we not said here | the Mice | our homes | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme out home=Trajectory |
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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