The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 10
Then the splinter is turned, and a nick is similarly made on the other side, just a little ahead of the first; and so on.
What happens: turn, make · To what, where: splinter, nick, other side
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 splinter | det |
| 3 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nick | det |
| 9 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 side | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ahead | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 ahead | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ahead | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ahead | amod |
| 21 | ahead | ahead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 first | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 first | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 ahead | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 on | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 on | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 on | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · passive | the splinter | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | a nick | the other side | similarly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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