The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 11
It is by this alternate nicking from opposite sides that the stone-splinter grows less by tiny flakes, and is shaped by degrees to a perfect arrow-head.
Who acts: splinter, alternate, that, degrees · What happens: be, nick, grow, shape · To what, where: opposite sides, perfect arrow head
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: who acts (splinter, alternate, that, degrees), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alternate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alternate | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 alternate | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 alternate | det |
| 5 | alternate | alternate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | nicking | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 alternate | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sides | amod |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nicking | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grows | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 splinter | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 splinter | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 stone | punct |
| 14 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grows | nsubj |
| 15 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alternate | parataxis |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 grows | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 flakes | case |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flakes | amod |
| 19 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grows | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shaped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shaped | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 shaped | aux:pass |
| 23 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 grows | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 degrees | case |
| 25 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shaped | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 head | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 head | det |
| 28 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 head | amod |
| 29 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 head | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 arrow | punct |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shaped | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alternate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | splinter | by this alternate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nick | gerund | this alternate not said here | opposite sides | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | that | by tiny flakes; the stone splinter nsubj; less property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by flake=Location | ||||
| 4 | shape | present · passive | degrees | a perfect arrow head | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to head=Recipient |
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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