The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 16
Too-wháy-deh laid off his blanket and took hold of the largest rock there was, and sang the song.
Who acts: wháy deh · What happens: lay off, take, sing, hold · To what, where: blanket, hold, song, largest rock
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy deh), 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 5 deh | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Too | punct |
| 3 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wháy | punct |
| 5 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deh | acl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 blanket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 rock | amod |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | nmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rock | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sang | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay off | participle | wháy deh not said here | deh's blanket | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | wháy deh | hold of the largest rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | wháy deh not said here | the song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | the largest rock | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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