The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 3
One day Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh was working in his field.
Who acts: kee raí deh · What happens: work
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 (kee raí 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 working | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Quáh | Quáh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Quáh | punct |
| 5 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kee | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 le | punct |
| 7 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 raí | punct |
| 9 | raí | raí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 raí | punct |
| 11 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 working | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 working | aux |
| 13 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 field | nmod:poss |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 working | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | kee raí deh | day | in deh's field | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=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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