The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 14
It is you that cut my hair and left me a laughed-at.
Who acts: deh, you · What happens: be, cut, leave, laugh · To what, where: you, hair, me
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Feathered Barbers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deh, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 you | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 you | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 left | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 laughed | det |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 left | advcl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 laughed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | deh | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | you | my hair | that nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | |||
| 3 | leave | past | you not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | laugh | participle | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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