The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 80
Let your mother take it with one hand at the bottom, then the Whit-lah-wíd-deh’s hand, then her other hand, and then his other hand; and last your brother’s hand, your hand, then his other hand, and your other hand at the top of all.
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: let, take, last · To what, where: mother, cane, bottom, hand, top
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hand | nummod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hand | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 hand | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deh | det |
| 15 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lah | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Whit | punct |
| 17 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wíd | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 lah | punct |
| 19 | wíd | wíd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deh | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wíd | punct |
| 21 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 deh | case |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hand | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 hand | advmod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hand | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hand | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 hand | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hand | amod |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hand | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 last | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 last | cc |
| 37 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 brother | case |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 last | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hand | punct |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 hand | nmod:poss |
| 44 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 last | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 hand | punct |
| 46 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 hand | advmod |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 hand | nmod:poss |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hand | amod |
| 49 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 last | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 hand | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 hand | cc |
| 52 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 hand | nmod:poss |
| 53 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 hand | amod |
| 54 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 last | obl |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 top | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 top | det |
| 57 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 last | obl |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 all | case |
| 59 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 top | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | your mother | the wíd deh's hand obl; deh's other hand and heart's other hand obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | your mother not said here | cane | the bottom | with one hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at bottom=Asset | ||
| 3 | last | infinitive | you not said here | your brother's hand | the top of all | your hand obl; heart's other hand obl:unmarked; your other hand obl | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hand=Value |
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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