The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 120
Making for himself a flute from the bark of a young tree, he played upon it as he strode homeward and sang:
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: make, play, stride, sing · To what, where: flute, bark, homeward
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 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 played | advcl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 himself | case |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Making | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flute | det |
| 5 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bark | det |
| 8 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bark | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Making | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 played | nsubj |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 played | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 strode | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strode | nsubj |
| 20 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 played | advcl |
| 21 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strode | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sang | cc |
| 23 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 strode | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Kahp not said here | a flute | the bark of a young tree | for Kahp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flute=Product for himself=Beneficiary from bark=Material | ||
| 2 | play | past | Kahp | upon tree | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stride | past | Kahp | homeward | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | Kahp not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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