The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 74
For four days he stayed there and was cleansed with the cleansing of the medicine-man; and then the old shepherd said to him:
Who acts: COYOTE, old shepherd · What happens: stay, cleanse, say · To what, where: COYOTE, medicine man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COYOTE, old shepherd), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stayed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cleansed | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleansed | aux:pass |
| 9 | cleansed | cleanse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stayed | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cleansing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cleansing | det |
| 12 | cleansing | cleansing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleansed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 medicine | punct |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cleansing | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 said | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shepherd | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shepherd | amod |
| 23 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | COYOTE | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cleanse | past · passive | COYOTE not said here | with the cleansing of the medicine man | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old shepherd | COYOTE | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | cleanse | the medicine man | nom cleansing «act 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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