The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 23
Then he invokes all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad, assures it of his sincere respect and friendship, begs it to remember him with a _punta_, and lets it go.
Who acts: Quáh, Toad · What happens: invoke, assure, beg, remember, let, go · To what, where: sorts, Toad, Quáh, blessings
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, Toad), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 invokes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invokes | nsubj |
| 3 | invokes | invoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sorts | det |
| 5 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invokes | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blessings | case |
| 7 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sorts | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Toad | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Toad | det |
| 10 | Horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Toad | amod |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 blessings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assures | punct |
| 13 | assures | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 invokes | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 assures | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 respect | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 respect | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 respect | amod |
| 18 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assures | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 friendship | cc |
| 20 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 respect | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 begs | punct |
| 22 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 assures | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 begs | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 remember | mark |
| 25 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 begs | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 remember | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 punta | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 punta | det |
| 29 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 punta | compound |
| 30 | punta | punta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remember | obl |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 remember | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lets | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lets | cc |
| 34 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 invokes | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lets | obj |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lets | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invokes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invoke | present | Quáh | all sorts of blessings on the Horned Toad | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | assure | present | Quáh not said here | Toad | of Quáh's sincere respect and friendship | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Recipient of respect=Topic | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | present | Quáh not said here | Toad | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remember not said to happen | to-infinitive | Quáh not said here | Quáh | with a _ punta | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | let | present | Quáh not said here | Toad | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | Toad not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sort | blessings on the Horned Toad | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | respect | Quáh | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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