The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 117
Again the Little Black Ants pushed and the Big Red Ants pulled, and this time the tree was driven clear out of sight, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo was left sitting on the ground.
Who acts: Black Ants, Big Red Ants, Kahp · What happens: push, pull, drive, leave, sit · To what, where: tree, Kahp, ground
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 (Black Ants, Big Red Ants, Kahp), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ants | det |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Black | amod |
| 4 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ants | compound |
| 5 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pushed | nsubj |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ants | det |
| 9 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ants | flat |
| 10 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ants | compound |
| 11 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 pulled | nsubj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 driven | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 driven | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driven | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 driven | aux:pass |
| 20 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pushed | conj |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 driven | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clear | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 27 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 left | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Kahp | punct |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 yoo | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 too | punct |
| 31 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yoo | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 óo | punct |
| 33 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | aux:pass |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pushed | conj |
| 36 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 left | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ground | det |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sitting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | the Black Ants | again | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | the Big Red Ants | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drive | past · passive | the tree | time | clear property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | Kahp | óo yoo nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | Kahp not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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