The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 119
Then he made all his clothing to be new, for he had been four years a prisoner in the bewitched tree, and was all in rags.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: make, be, bewitch · To what, where: clothing, rags
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 clothing | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 new | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 new | cop |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 years | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 years | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 years | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 years | cop |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 prisoner | det |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 years | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prisoner | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rags | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rags | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rags | cop |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 rags | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 rags | case |
| 28 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Kahp | Kahp's clothing | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Product | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Kahp not said here | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Kahp | for four years and a prisoner in the bewitched tree | a prisoner in the bewitched tree conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bewitch | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | rags | all 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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