The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 131
When Nah-chu-rú-chu came inside his home once more, he took a new _manta_ and spread it in the middle of the room; and laying the wee white flower tenderly in its center, he put another new _manta_ above it.
Who acts: chu rú, rú · What happens: come, take, spread, lay, put · To what, where: home, new _ manta, middle, wee white flower, new manta, center
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chu rú, rú), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 rú | discourse |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nah | punct |
| 4 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rú | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chu | punct |
| 6 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chu | punct |
| 8 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 rú | conj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | advcl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 manta | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manta | amod |
| 20 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 manta | compound |
| 21 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spread | cc |
| 24 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spread | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 middle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 middle | det |
| 28 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spread | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 middle | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 laying | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 laying | cc |
| 34 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 took | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 flower | det |
| 36 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 flower | amod |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 flower | amod |
| 38 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 laying | obj |
| 39 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 laying | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 center | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 center | nmod:poss |
| 42 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tenderly | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 put | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 put | nsubj |
| 45 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 46 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 manta | det |
| 47 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 manta | amod |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 new | punct |
| 49 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 put | obj |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 put | punct |
| 51 | above | above | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 put | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | chu rú | rú's home | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside home=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | rú | a new _ manta | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | rú not said here | home | the middle of the room | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay | gerund | rú not said here | the wee white flower | tenderly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result | |||
| 5 | put | past | rú | another new manta | center | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent manta=Theme above it=Destination |
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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