The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 20
But that one said the same thing; and Too-wháy-deh let him go, and dug after the next one.
Who acts: one, wháy deh, friend · What happens: say, let, go, dig · To what, where: same thing, friend · 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, 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 (one, wháy deh, friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 10 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 14 deh | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Too | punct |
| 12 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wháy | punct |
| 14 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dug | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dug | cc |
| 20 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 let | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that one | the same thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | wháy deh | friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | friend not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dig | participle | wháy deh not said here | after the next one | vn create-26.4-1-1 «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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