The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 24
Next time he goes to the mesa, he fully expects to find an arrow-head, and generally _does_ find one--doubtless because he then searches more carefully on that broad reach where so many arrow-heads have been lost in ancient wars and hunts.
Who acts: Quáh · What happens: go, expect, find, search, lose · To what, where: mesa, arrow head, one, broad reach, many arrow heads, ancient wars
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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mesa | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mesa | det |
| 7 | mesa | mesa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 expects | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 expects | nsubj |
| 10 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 11 expects | advmod |
| 11 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expects | xcomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrow | punct |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 20 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 generally | punct |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 23 | _ | _ | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 goes | conj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 doubtless | punct |
| 27 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 find | xcomp |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 searches | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 searches | nsubj |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 searches | advmod |
| 31 | searches | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | advcl |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 carefully | advmod |
| 33 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 31 searches | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 reach | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 reach | det |
| 36 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 reach | amod |
| 37 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 searches | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 lost | advmod |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 many | advmod |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 heads | amod |
| 41 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heads | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 arrow | punct |
| 43 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 lost | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 lost | aux:pass |
| 46 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 reach | acl:relcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 wars | case |
| 48 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 wars | amod |
| 49 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 lost | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 hunts | cc |
| 51 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 wars | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Quáh | the mesa | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mesa=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | expect | present | Quáh | fully property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Quáh not said here | a arrow head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find | present · do-support | Quáh not said here | one | doubtless, generally property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 5 | search | present | Quáh | that broad reach | then | carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on reach=Location | ||
| 6 | lose | present · perfect · passive | many arrow heads | ancient wars and hunts | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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