The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 99
He made a new scalp-dance, because they had not stayed to finish the first one.
Who acts: Cacique, Trues · What happens: make, not stay, finish · To what, where: new scalp dance, first one
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 (Cacique, Trues), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dance | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dance | amod |
| 5 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 scalp | punct |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stayed | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 stayed | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stayed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stayed | advmod |
| 13 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 finish | mark |
| 15 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stayed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Cacique | a new scalp dance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Product | ||||
| 2 | not stay | past · perfect | Trues = true | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | Trues = true not said here | the first one | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality |
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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