The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 55
Drawing back her little dimpled hand, she threw the meal gently against the pearl _omate_, and so fine was it ground that every tiniest bit of it clung to the polished shell, and not a particle fell to the ground.
Who acts: Moon, meal, fine ground, particle · What happens: draw back, dimple, throw, be, cling, polish · To what, where: little dimpled hand, meal, pearl, fine ground, tiniest bit
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 (Moon, meal, fine ground, particle), 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 threw | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Drawing | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 5 | dimpled | dimple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drawing | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meal | det |
| 11 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 12 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 threw | advmod |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 pearl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pearl | det |
| 15 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 omate | punct |
| 17 | omate | omate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 threw | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 omate | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ground | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ground | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ground | amod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ground | cop |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ground | nsubj |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 clung | nsubj |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 bit | det |
| 28 | tiniest | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 bit | amod |
| 29 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clung | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bit | nmod |
| 32 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ground | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 shell | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shell | det |
| 35 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 shell | amod |
| 36 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clung | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fell | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 fell | cc |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 fell | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 particle | det |
| 41 | particle | particle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fell | nsubj |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 ground | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ground | det |
| 45 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fell | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | gerund | Moon not said here | Moon's little dimpled hand | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dimple | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | throw | past | Moon | the meal | the pearl | gently property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent meal=Theme against pearl=Destination | ||
| 4 | is a | past | meal | fine ground | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cling | participle | fine ground | every tiniest bit of meal | to the polished shell | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to shell=Co-Theme | |||
| 6 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | not fall | past | a particle | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
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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