The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 9
With a firm, steady pressure against the sharp edge of the bone, a tiny flake is nicked from the splinter.
What happens: nick · To what, where: tiny flake, splinter
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 firm | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 firm | det |
| 3 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nicked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pressure | punct |
| 5 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pressure | amod |
| 6 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 firm | appos |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 edge | amod |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pressure | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bone | det |
| 13 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 firm | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flake | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flake | amod |
| 17 | flake | flake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 nicked | aux:pass |
| 19 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 splinter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 splinter | det |
| 22 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nicked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 nicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | present · passive | a tiny flake | the splinter | with a firm | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with firm=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/12/9/