The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 54
But Too-wháy-deh, being a coward, ran away and would not pay his bet.
Who acts: wháy deh, Pee · What happens: be, run away, not pay, bet · To what, where: coward, bet
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 (wháy deh, Pee), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 deh | cc |
| 2 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 6 deh | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Too | punct |
| 4 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wháy | punct |
| 6 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coward | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 coward | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coward | det |
| 10 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deh | punct |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pay | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pay | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pay | advmod |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ran | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a coward | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | wháy deh | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not pay | would | wháy deh not said here | Pee's bet | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Asset | ||||
| 4 | bet | Pee | nom bet «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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