The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 31
Indian etiquette is very strict upon this point--as well as upon all others.
Who acts: Indian etiquette · What happens: be
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 (Indian etiquette), 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 etiquette | amod |
| 2 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strict | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strict | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 strict | advmod |
| 5 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 point | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 point | det |
| 8 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strict | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 others | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 others | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 point | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Indian etiquette | upon this point upon all others; strict property | tree rules |
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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