The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 25
Finding one, he prays to the Sun-Father and the Moon-Mother and all his other deities, and returns profound thanks to the Horned Toad.
Who acts: Quáh · What happens: find, pray, return · To what, where: one, profound thanks, Horned Toad
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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 prays | csubj |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Finding | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prays | nsubj |
| 5 | prays | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Father | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Father | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Father | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sun | punct |
| 10 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 prays | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mother | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mother | det |
| 13 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mother | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Moon | punct |
| 15 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Father | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 deities | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 deities | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 deities | nmod:poss |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deities | amod |
| 20 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Father | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returns | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 returns | cc |
| 23 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prays | conj |
| 24 | profound | profound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thanks | compound |
| 25 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returns | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Toad | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Toad | det |
| 28 | Horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Toad | amod |
| 29 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returns | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pray | present | Quáh | to the Sun Father and the Moon Mother and Quáh's other deities | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | return | present | Quáh not said here | profound thanks | the Horned Toad | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to toad=Destination |
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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