The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 6
So they cut off all his hair, which makes one to be laughed at, and ran away.
Who acts: coyote, hair · What happens: cut off, make, laugh, run away · To what, where: hair, one
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 (coyote, hair), 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 | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hair | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hair | acl:relcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 laughed | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 laughed | aux:pass |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 makes | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | coyote | crowd's hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present | crowd's hair | one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 3 | laugh | to-infinitive · passive | crowd's hair not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | run away | past | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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