The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 16
“No, friend Too-wháy-deh, it was another who did it.
What happens: do · To what, where: deh, friend
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 friend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 9 deh | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Too | punct |
| 7 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wháy | punct |
| 9 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 another | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 another | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 another | cop |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 friend | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 another | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | deh | who nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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