The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 40
And this is why, ever since, Big-ears strikes with his hind feet if anything comes behind him slyly; for he remembers how Too-wháy-deh stole the cheese.
Who acts: this, Big ears, anything, master, wháy deh · What happens: be, strike, come, remember, steal · To what, where: cheese · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, Big ears, anything, master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 why | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 since | punct |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 since | advmod |
| 7 | since | since | ADV | _ | 11 ears | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 since | punct |
| 9 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ears | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Big | punct |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 strikes | nsubj |
| 12 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feet | amod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 strikes | obl |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 comes | mark |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strikes | advcl |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 comes | obl |
| 22 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 19 comes | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 remembers | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 remembers | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 remembers | nsubj |
| 26 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strikes | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 Too | advmod |
| 28 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 32 deh | advmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Too | punct |
| 30 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deh | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 wháy | punct |
| 32 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stole | nsubj |
| 33 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 remembers | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cheese | det |
| 35 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stole | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | present | Big ears | with master's hind feet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | anything | behind master; slyly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | ||||
| 4 | remember | present | master | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | steal | past | wháy deh | the 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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