The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 6
Then the Tée-wahn returned to their village, and the warriors went into the _estufa_ (sacred council-chamber) to prepare themselves by fasting for the great scalp-dance in twelve days.
Who acts: Tée wahn, warriors · What happens: return, go, prepare, fast · To what, where: sacred council chamber, estufa, 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 (Tée wahn, warriors), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wahn | det |
| 3 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wahn | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tée | punct |
| 5 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 village | nmod:poss |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warriors | det |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 estufa | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 estufa | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 estufa | punct |
| 18 | estufa | estufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 chamber | punct |
| 21 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chamber | amod |
| 22 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chamber | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 council | punct |
| 24 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 chamber | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 prepare | mark |
| 27 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 chamber | acl |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 prepare | obj |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 fasting | mark |
| 30 | fasting | fast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 prepare | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 dance | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dance | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dance | amod |
| 34 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dance | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 scalp | punct |
| 36 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fasting | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 38 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 days | nummod |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fasting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Tée wahn | then | to Mice's village result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | |||
| 2 | go | past | the warriors | sacred council chamber | the estufa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into estufa=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the warriors not said here | Mice = mouse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fast | gerund | the warriors not said here | day | for the great scalp dance | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/5/6/