The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 7
The only implements are part of a peculiarly shaped bone--preferably from the thigh of the elk--and a stick about the size of a lead-pencil, but of double the diameter.
Who acts: only implements · What happens: be, shape, double · To what, where: part, diameter
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 (only implements), 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 implements | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 implements | amod |
| 3 | implements | implement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 part | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bone | det |
| 8 | peculiarly | peculiarly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | compound |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bone | amod |
| 10 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 thigh | punct |
| 12 | preferably | preferably | ADV | _ | 15 thigh | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 thigh | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thigh | det |
| 15 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 elk | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elk | det |
| 18 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thigh | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 stick | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stick | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stick | det |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 size | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 size | det |
| 25 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pencil | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pencil | det |
| 28 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pencil | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 lead | punct |
| 30 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 size | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 double | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 double | cc |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 double | case |
| 34 | double | double | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 part | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 diameter | det |
| 36 | diameter | diameter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 double | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only implements | part and a stick about the size of a lead pencil | of a peculiarly shaped bone; a stick about the size of a lead pencil conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | double | infinitive | the only implements not said here | the diameter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent diameter=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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