The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 118
He hastily made a bow and arrows and soon killed a fat deer, which he brought and divided among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants, thanking them for their kindness.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: make, kill, bring, divide, thank · To what, where: bow, fat deer, deer
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bow | det |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 arrows | cc |
| 7 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bow | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 killed | advmod |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deer | det |
| 12 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deer | amod |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 brought | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 deer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 divided | cc |
| 19 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | conj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 Ants | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Ants | det |
| 22 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ants | amod |
| 23 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ants | amod |
| 24 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 divided | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Ants | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Ants | det |
| 27 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ants | flat |
| 28 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ants | compound |
| 29 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Ants | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thanking | punct |
| 31 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 divided | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thanking | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 kindness | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 35 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thanking | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Kahp | a bow and arrows | hastily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Kahp not said here | a fat deer | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past | Kahp | a fat deer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | divide | past | Kahp not said here | among the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | gerund | Kahp not said here | deer | for deer's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
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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