The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 63
Unfortunately for him, however, the trick was detected--he was the twin brother of the challenged man, and had awaited him in the cave, taking up the race fresh when the first runner was tired!
Who acts: burro, first runner · What happens: detect, be, challenge, await, take up · To what, where: trick, twin brother, burro, cave, race
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 (burro, first runner), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 10 detected | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unfortunately | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unfortunately | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 detected | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trick | det |
| 8 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 detected | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 detected | aux:pass |
| 10 | detected | detect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 brother | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brother | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brother | det |
| 15 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | compound |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 detected | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brother | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 awaited | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 awaited | cc |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 awaited | aux |
| 24 | awaited | await | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 detected | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 awaited | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cave | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cave | det |
| 28 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 awaited | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 taking | punct |
| 30 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 awaited | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 taking | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 race | det |
| 33 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 taking | obj |
| 34 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 taking | xcomp |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 tired | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 runner | det |
| 37 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 runner | amod |
| 38 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tired | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 tired | cop |
| 40 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fresh | advcl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 detected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detect | past · passive | the trick | however, unfortunately property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | burro | the twin brother | of the challenged man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | challenge | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | await | past · perfect | burro | the cave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take up | gerund | the race | fresh property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the first runner | tired property | tree rules |
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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