The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 17
Then Too-wháy-deh followed him behind, without noise, and slyly bit the bag and stole a cheese.
Who acts: wháy, noise · What happens: follow, bite, steal · To what, where: Burro, bag, cheese
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy, noise), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 followed | advmod |
| 2 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 4 wháy | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Too | punct |
| 4 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 deh | punct |
| 6 | deh | deh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wháy | appos |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 followed | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 followed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 noise | punct |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 noise | case |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slyly | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slyly | cc |
| 15 | slyly | slyly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 noise | conj |
| 16 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bag | det |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stole | cc |
| 20 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bit | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cheese | det |
| 22 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stole | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | wháy | Burro | then | behind property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | bite | past | noise | the bag | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | noise not said here | a cheese | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheese=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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