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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 21

Whenever a Pueblo sees a Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh, he jumps from his horse or his big farm-wagon, and makes every effort to capture the _animalito_ before it can reach a hole.

Who acts: Pueblo, Quáh, effort · What happens: see, deh, jump, make, capture, reach · To what, where: effort, animalito, hole

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 (Pueblo, Quáh, effort), 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

markdetnsubjadvcldetnsubjpunctappospunctcompoundpunctcompoundpunctobjpunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblccnmod:possamodcompoundpunctconjpunctccconjdetobjmarkxcompdetpunctobjpunctmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjpunctrootWheneverSCONJaDETPuebloPROPNseesVERBaDETQuáhPROPN-PUNCTleNOUN-PUNCTkeeNOUN-PUNCTraíNOUN-PUNCTdehNOUN,PUNCThePRONjumpsVERBfromADPhisPRONhorseNOUNorCCONJhisPRONbigADJfarmNOUN-PUNCTwagonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmakesVERBeveryDETeffortNOUNtoPARTcaptureVERBtheDET_PUNCTanimalitoNOUN_PUNCTbeforeSCONJitPRONcanAUXreachVERBaDETholeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WheneverwheneverSCONJ_4 seesmark
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 Pueblodet
3PuebloPuebloPROPNNumber=Sing4 seesnsubj
4seesseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 jumpsadvcl
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 dehdet
6QuáhQuáhPROPNNumber=Sing14 dehnsubj
7--PUNCT_6 Quáhpunct
8leleNOUNNumber=Sing6 Quáhappos
9--PUNCT_8 lepunct
10keekeeNOUNNumber=Sing14 dehcompound
11--PUNCT_10 keepunct
12raíraíNOUNNumber=Sing14 dehcompound
13--PUNCT_14 dehpunct
14dehdehNOUNNumber=Sing4 seesobj
15,,PUNCT_4 seespunct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 jumpsnsubj
17jumpsjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
18fromfromADP_20 horsecase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 horsenmod:poss
20horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing17 jumpsobl
21ororCCONJ_26 wagoncc
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 wagonnmod:poss
23bigbigADJDegree=Pos26 wagonamod
24farmfarmNOUNNumber=Sing26 wagoncompound
25--PUNCT_24 farmpunct
26wagonwagonNOUNNumber=Sing20 horseconj
27,,PUNCT_29 makespunct
28andandCCONJ_29 makescc
29makesmakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 jumpsconj
30everyeveryDETPronType=Tot31 effortdet
31efforteffortNOUNNumber=Sing29 makesobj
32totoPART_33 capturemark
33capturecaptureVERBVerbForm=Inf29 makesxcomp
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 animalitodet
35__PUNCT_36 animalitopunct
36animalitoanimalitoNOUNNumber=Sing33 captureobj
37__PUNCT_33 capturepunct
38beforebeforeSCONJ_41 reachmark
39ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 reachnsubj
40cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin41 reachaux
41reachreachVERBVerbForm=Inf33 captureadvcl
42aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art43 holedet
43holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing41 reachobj
44..PUNCT_17 jumpspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepresenta Pueblovn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2dehQuáhtree rules
3jumppresentQuáhfrom Quáh's horse or Quáh's big farm wagonvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
4makepresentQuáh not said hereevery efforttree rules
5captureto-infinitiveevery effort not said herethe animalitovn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animalito=Theme
6reachcanPuebloa holevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hole=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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