The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 22
If successful, he pulls from his blanket or his legging-garters a red thread--no other color will do--and ties it necklace-fashion around the neck of his little prisoner.
Who acts: Quáh, other color · What happens: pull, do, tie · To what, where: red thread, color, neck
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, other color), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 successful | mark |
| 2 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pulls | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 successful | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulls | nsubj |
| 5 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 blanket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulls | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 garters | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 garters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | legging | legging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garters | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 legging | punct |
| 13 | garters | garter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blanket | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thread | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thread | amod |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garters | appos |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 color | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 color | amod |
| 20 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thread | acl:relcl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 ties | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ties | cc |
| 25 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulls | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ties | obj |
| 27 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fashion | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 necklace | punct |
| 29 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ties | obj |
| 30 | around | around | ADP | _ | 32 neck | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 neck | det |
| 32 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ties | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 prisoner | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 prisoner | amod |
| 36 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 neck | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | Quáh | from Quáh's blanket or Quáh's legging garters | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from blanket=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | future | no other color | a red thread not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tie | present | Quáh not said here | color | the neck of Quáh's little prisoner | necklace fashion obj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient fashion=Result |
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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