The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 36
He made a mark on his breast with his finger, saying: “Here I will cut, and take her out.”
Who acts: Shée, clay · What happens: make, say, cut, take out · To what, where: mark, breast, Locust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shée, clay), 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 | 4 mark | det |
| 4 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 breast | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breast | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 finger | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 15 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 cut | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cut | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Shée | a mark | Shée's breast with Shée's finger | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cut in a quote | future | clay | here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | take out in a quote | infinitive | clay not said here | Locust | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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