The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 95
So the Cum-pa-huit-la-wid-deh shot the skeleton through with an arrow from the left side to the right side,[46] and took the scalp.
Who acts: huit, Cum pa · What happens: deh, shoot, take · To what, where: Cum pa, skeleton, arrow, scalp
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 (huit, Cum pa), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 shot | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pa | det |
| 3 | Cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cum | punct |
| 5 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 huit | punct |
| 7 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deh | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 la | punct |
| 9 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 huit | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 la | punct |
| 11 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deh | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wid | punct |
| 13 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pa | acl:relcl |
| 14 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skeleton | det |
| 16 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 arrow | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 arrow | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 arrow | det |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrow | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 side | amod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 46 | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 46 | punct |
| 31 | 46 | 46 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 shot | obl |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 46 | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shot | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 scalp | det |
| 36 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deh | huit and la | the Cum pa not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | the Cum pa | the skeleton | a arrow from the left side to the right side | 46 obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skeleton=Theme through arrow=Destination | ||
| 3 | take | past | the Cum pa not said here | the scalp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=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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