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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

nsubjcopdetadvmoddetnsubjacl:relclobjpunctccnsubjcopdetparataxisadvmodnsubjauxadvmodcopadvclmarkxcompdetobjcasecasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctrootThatPRONwasAUXtheDETtimeNOUNwhenADVtheDETMiceNOUNconqueredVERBmenNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONisAUXtheDETreasonNOUNwhyADVwePRONhaveAUXneverADVbeenAUXableADJtoPARTdriveVERBtheDETMiceNOUNoutADPofADPourPRONhomesNOUNtoADPthisDETdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 timensubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 timecop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 timedet
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 conqueredadvmod
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Micedet
7MicemouseNOUNNumber=Plur8 conquerednsubj
8conqueredconquerVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 timeacl:relcl
9menmanNOUNNumber=Plur8 conqueredobj
10;;PUNCT_15 reasonpunct
11andandCCONJ_15 reasoncc
12thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 reasonnsubj
13isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 reasoncop
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 reasondet
15reasonreasonNOUNNumber=Sing4 timeparataxis
16whywhyADVPronType=Int21 ableadvmod
17wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs21 ablensubj
18havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 ableaux
19neverneverADVPronType=Neg21 ableadvmod
20beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 ablecop
21ableableADJDegree=Pos15 reasonadvcl
22totoPART_23 drivemark
23drivedriveVERBVerbForm=Inf21 ablexcomp
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Micedet
25MicemouseNOUNNumber=Plur23 driveobj
26outoutADP_29 homescase
27ofofADP_29 homescase
28ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 homesnmod:poss
29homeshomeNOUNNumber=Plur23 driveobl
30totoADP_32 daycase
31thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem32 daydet
32daydayNOUNNumber=Sing23 driveobl
33..PUNCT_4 timepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastThatthe timetree rules
2conquerpastthe Micemenvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3is apresentthatthe reasontree rules
4not ispresent · perfectweable propertytree rules
5driveto-infinitivewe not said herethe Miceour homesdayvn 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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