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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 4 sees | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Pueblo | det |
| 3 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 jumps | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deh | det |
| 6 | Quáh | Quáh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Quáh | punct |
| 8 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Quáh | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 le | punct |
| 10 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 kee | punct |
| 12 | raí | raí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 deh | punct |
| 14 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 jumps | nsubj |
| 17 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jumps | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 wagon | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wagon | nmod:poss |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wagon | amod |
| 24 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wagon | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 farm | punct |
| 26 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 horse | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 makes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 makes | cc |
| 29 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 jumps | conj |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 effort | det |
| 31 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 makes | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 capture | mark |
| 33 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 makes | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 animalito | det |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 animalito | punct |
| 36 | animalito | animalito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 capture | obj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 capture | punct |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 reach | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 reach | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 reach | aux |
| 41 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 capture | advcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 hole | det |
| 43 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reach | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 jumps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a Pueblo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | deh | Quáh | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | jump | present | Quáh | from Quáh's horse or Quáh's big farm wagon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make | present | Quáh not said here | every effort | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | capture | to-infinitive | every effort not said here | the animalito | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animalito=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reach | can | Pueblo | a hole | vn 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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