The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 102
And it was so; for when Kahp-too-óo-yoo had eaten all he could, the acorn-cup was still nearly full.
Who acts: left, acorn cup · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: Kahp
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (left, acorn cup), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 eaten | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 eaten | mark |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 eaten | mark |
| 8 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kahp | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 yoo | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 too | punct |
| 12 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yoo | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 óo | punct |
| 14 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 eaten | aux |
| 16 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 could | det |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eaten | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 full | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cup | det |
| 22 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cup | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 acorn | punct |
| 24 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 full | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 full | cop |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 full | advmod |
| 27 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 28 full | advmod |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 could | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | left | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect · passive | Kahp | óo yoo nsubj:pass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the acorn cup | still | full, nearly property | tree rules |
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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