The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 70
Taking their scalps, they hurried home to their grandfather, and when he saw that they had brought the real oak-skin (which is an Indian euphemy for “scalp”), he led them proudly to the Cacique, and the Cacique ordered the T’u-a-fú-ar (scalp-dance).
Who acts: boys, Coyote, real oak skin, Cacique · What happens: take, hurry, see, bring, be, lead · To what, where: scalps, boys, Indian euphemy, Cacique, T’u · 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 (boys, Coyote, real oak skin, Cacique), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurried | advcl |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 scalps | nmod:poss |
| 3 | scalps | scalp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 hurried | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 grandfather | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skin | amod |
| 22 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 oak | punct |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 euphemy | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 euphemy | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 euphemy | cop |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 euphemy | det |
| 29 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 euphemy | amod |
| 30 | euphemy | euphemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | appos |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 scalp | case |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 scalp | punct |
| 33 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 euphemy | nmod |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 euphemy | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 euphemy | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 led | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 led | nsubj |
| 38 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 led | obj |
| 40 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 38 led | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Cacique | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Cacique | det |
| 43 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 led | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 ordered | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 ordered | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Cacique | det |
| 47 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 ordered | nsubj |
| 48 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 T’u | det |
| 50 | T’u | T'u | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 ordered | obj |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 ar | punct |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 ar | det |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 a | punct |
| 54 | fú | fú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ar | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 fú | punct |
| 56 | ar | AR | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 T’u | appos |
| 57 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 60 dance | punct |
| 58 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 dance | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 scalp | punct |
| 60 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ar | appos |
| 61 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 dance | punct |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | boys = boy not said here | boys's scalps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | boys = boy | to boys's grandfather result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to grandfather=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | boys = boy | the real oak skin obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination skin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the real oak skin | a Indian euphemy | for scalp | tree rules | |||
| 6 | lead | past | Coyote | boys = boy | the Cacique | proudly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to cacique=Destination | ||
| 7 | order | past | the Cacique | the T’u | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t'u=Theme |
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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