The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 24
So Big-ears went back to the hills and looked for the house of Too-wháy-deh.
Who acts: Big ears · What happens: go back, look
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 (Big ears), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ears | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 deh | case |
| 16 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 20 deh | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Too | punct |
| 18 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deh | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 wháy | punct |
| 20 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Big ears | to the hills result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Big ears not said here | for the house of wháy deh | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for house=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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