The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 19

He talked so nicely to a Horned Toad on the mesa[40] the other day, that the little creature put a _punta_ where he could find it the next time he went thither.

Who acts: Quáh, little creature · What happens: talk, put, find, go · To what, where: punta, creature, next time

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 (Quáh, little creature), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 nicely	advmod
4	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	2 talked	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Toad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Toad	det
7	Horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Toad	amod
8	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 mesa	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mesa	det
11	mesa	mesa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Toad	nmod
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 40	punct
13	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 mesa	appos
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 40	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 40	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creature	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creature	amod
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 punta	det
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 punta	punct
26	punta	punta	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 find	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 time	det
34	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 time	acl:relcl
38	thither	thither	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Quáh			to a Horned Toad on the mesa; nicely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to toad=Co-Agent
2	put	past	the little creature	a punta			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent punta=Goal
3	find	could	Quáh	creature	time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	go	past	Quáh	the next time not said here		thither property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 19