The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 33
The strange appearance of this quaint, spiked lizard--which is really not a “hop-toad” at all--doubtless suggested the notion; for his whole back is covered with peculiar points which have very much the shape and color of Indian arrow-heads.
Who acts: quaint spiked lizard, strange appearance, peculiar points · What happens: spike, not be, suggest, cover, have · To what, where: hop toad, all, notion, shape · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (quaint spiked lizard, strange appearance, peculiar points), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 appearance | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appearance | amod |
| 3 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suggested | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lizard | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lizard | nsubj |
| 6 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lizard | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quaint | punct |
| 8 | spiked | spike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lizard | amod |
| 9 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appearance | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 toad | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 toad | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 toad | cop |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 toad | advmod |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 toad | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 toad | det |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 toad | punct |
| 17 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toad | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hop | punct |
| 19 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lizard | conj |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 toad | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 toad | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 doubtless | punct |
| 24 | doubtless | doubtless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lizard | conj |
| 25 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 notion | det |
| 27 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suggested | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 covered | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 back | amod |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 covered | obl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 covered | aux:pass |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 suggested | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 points | case |
| 36 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 points | compound |
| 37 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 covered | obl |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 points | acl:relcl |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 much | advmod |
| 41 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 shape | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 shape | det |
| 43 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 color | cc |
| 45 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shape | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 heads | case |
| 47 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 heads | amod |
| 48 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 heads | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 arrow | punct |
| 50 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 color | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spike | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | quaint spiked lizard this and a hop toad and doubtless | a hop toad | all | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the strange appearance of quaint spiked lizard this and a hop toad and doubtless | the notion | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent notion=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cover | present · passive | the strange appearance of quaint spiked lizard this and a hop toad and doubtless not said here | for appearance's whole back; with peculiar points | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with point=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | peculiar points | the shape and color of Indian arrow heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
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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