The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 27
Shelling the choicest, each took her few handfuls of kernels to the sloping _metate_,[33] and with the _mano_, or hand-stone, scrubbed the grist up and down, and up and down, till the hard corn was a soft, blue meal.
Who acts: each, hard corn · What happens: shell, take, slope, scrub, be · To what, where: choicest, few handfuls, sloping metate, grist, soft blue meal
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 (each, hard corn), 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 | Shelling | shell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 choicest | det |
| 3 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Shelling | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shelling | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 handfuls | nmod:poss |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 handfuls | amod |
| 9 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kernels | case |
| 11 | kernels | kernel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 handfuls | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 metate | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 metate | det |
| 14 | sloping | slope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 metate | compound |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 sloping | punct |
| 16 | metate | metate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 33 | punct |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 33 | punct |
| 20 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 took | parataxis |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 33 | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mano | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 mano | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mano | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 mano | punct |
| 26 | mano | mano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 33 | conj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 33 | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stone | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 stone | cc |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stone | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 hand | punct |
| 32 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scrubbed | punct |
| 34 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 grist | det |
| 36 | grist | grist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scrubbed | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADV | _ | 34 scrubbed | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 down | cc |
| 39 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 up | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 up | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 up | cc |
| 42 | up | up | ADV | _ | 34 scrubbed | advcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 down | cc |
| 44 | down | down | ADV | _ | 42 up | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 meal | punct |
| 46 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 55 meal | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 corn | det |
| 48 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 corn | amod |
| 49 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 meal | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 meal | cop |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 meal | det |
| 52 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 meal | amod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 soft | punct |
| 54 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 meal | amod |
| 55 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scrubbed | parataxis |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shell | gerund | each not said here | the choicest | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | each | crier's few handfuls of kernels | the sloping metate | hand stone obl; 33 and the mano parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme to metate=Destination | ||
| 3 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | scrub | past | each not said here | the grist | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent grist=Source | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the hard corn | a soft blue meal | 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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