The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 58
The Indian was a very famous runner, and the challenger depended on the distance alone to wear him out.
Who acts: Indian, challenger · What happens: be, depend, wear out · To what, where: famous runner, challenger
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 (Indian, challenger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 runner | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 runner | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 runner | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 famous | advmod |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 runner | amod |
| 7 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 depended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 depended | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 challenger | det |
| 11 | challenger | challenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depended | nsubj |
| 12 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 runner | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depended | obl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 depended | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wear | mark |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 depended | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wear | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 wear | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 runner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Indian | a famous runner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depend | past | the challenger | on the distance; alone property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on distance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear out | to-infinitive | the challenger not said here | challenger | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source |
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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