The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 36
_Whib_ is an aboriginal foot-race in which the runners have to carry a stick with their toes.
Who acts: Whib, runners · What happens: be, have, carry · To what, where: aboriginal foot race, stick
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whib, runners), 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 | _ | 2 Whib | punct |
| 2 | Whib | Whib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 race | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whib | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 6 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 race | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 foot | punct |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 have | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 runners | det |
| 13 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 toes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 toes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 race | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Whib | a aboriginal foot race | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the runners | a aboriginal foot race | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | the runners not said here | a stick | with runners's toes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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