The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 49
At last, very tired and with his tongue out, he came in sight of the starting-point, and there was Pee-oo-ée-deh, sitting at the door of his house, smoothing his hair.
Who acts: Pee, tired, oo ée deh · What happens: come, be, sit, smooth, sight · To what, where: sight, oo ée deh, door, hair, starting point
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pee, tired, oo ée 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tired | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 deh | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tongue | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tongue | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tired | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 tongue | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 point | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 point | det |
| 18 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 point | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 starting | punct |
| 20 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 was | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 was | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 deh | cop |
| 25 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deh | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Pee | punct |
| 27 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deh | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ée | punct |
| 29 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deh | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ée | punct |
| 31 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sitting | punct |
| 33 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 deh | acl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sitting | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 house | nmod:poss |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 door | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 smoothing | punct |
| 41 | smoothing | smooth | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 sitting | conj |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hair | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 smoothing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Pee | sight of the starting point | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | tired with Pee's tongue | oo ée deh | Pee nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | oo ée deh not said here | the door of Pee's house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 4 | smooth | gerund | oo ée deh not said here | Pee's hair | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sight | the starting point | nom sight «cognition 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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