The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 106
Kahp-too-óo-yoo shut his eyes, and the Captain sent signals down to those at the foot of the tree.
Who acts: Kahp, Captain · What happens: shut, send down · To what, where: eyes, signals, those
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 (Kahp, Captain), 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 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kahp | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 yoo | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yoo | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 óo | punct |
| 7 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shut | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Captain | det |
| 14 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | conj |
| 16 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 sent | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foot | det |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 those | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 foot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Kahp | Kahp's eyes | óo yoo nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | send down | past | the Captain | signals | those at the foot of the tree | down property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to that=Destination |
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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