The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 85
Then the Whit-lah-wíd-deh led Agostin out, and the little bird showed him the way down the mountain.
Who acts: wíd deh, little bird · What happens: lead out, show · To what, where: Agostin, way, heart
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 (wíd deh, little bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deh | det |
| 3 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Whit | punct |
| 5 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wíd | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 lah | punct |
| 7 | wíd | wíd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wíd | punct |
| 9 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 led | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 showed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 showed | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 mountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountain | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead out | past | the wíd deh | Agostin | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agostin=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | the little bird | the way | heart | down the mountain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic |
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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