The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 49
Reaching the mountain, they went to every kind of tree and cut a little piece of its bark--for they were not sure which was the oak.
Who acts: boys · What happens: reach, go, cut, not be, be · To what, where: mountain, kind, little piece, oak
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 (boys), 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 | Reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reaching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reaching | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kind | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 piece | amod |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bark | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bark | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 sure | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sure | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sure | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 sure | advmod |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cut | conj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 oak | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 oak | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 oak | det |
| 29 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | boys = boy not said here | the mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | boys = boy | every kind of tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | boys = boy not said here | a little piece of piece's bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | boys = boy | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the oak | which nsubj | tree rules |
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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