The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 131
When they met him they fell on their knees, weeping; but Kahp-too-óo-yoo lifted them up and blessed them, gave an ear of blue corn to Blue-Corn-Maiden, and to Yellow-Corn-Maiden an ear of yellow corn, and brought them home.
Who acts: sisters, Kahp, ear · What happens: meet, fall, weep, lift up, bless, give · To what, where: Boy, knees, sisters, ear
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 (sisters, Kahp, ear), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 knees | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeping | punct |
| 11 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fell | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lifted | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 lifted | cc |
| 14 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lifted | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kahp | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 yoo | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 18 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yoo | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 óo | punct |
| 20 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Kahp | list |
| 21 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lifted | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 lifted | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blessed | cc |
| 25 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lifted | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 blessed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lifted | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ear | det |
| 30 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 corn | case |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 corn | amod |
| 33 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ear | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Corn | case |
| 35 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Corn | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Blue | punct |
| 37 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 corn | nmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Maiden | punct |
| 39 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Corn | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Corn | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Corn | cc |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Corn | case |
| 43 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Corn | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Yellow | punct |
| 45 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lifted | parataxis |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 Maiden | punct |
| 47 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Corn | appos |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 ear | det |
| 49 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Corn | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 corn | case |
| 51 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 corn | amod |
| 52 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ear | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 brought | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 brought | cc |
| 55 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 ear | acl:relcl |
| 56 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 brought | obj |
| 57 | home | home | ADV | _ | 55 brought | advmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | sisters = sister | Boy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | sisters = sister | sisters's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | sisters = sister not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lift up | past | Kahp óo yoo | sisters = sister | Yellow Corn and a ear of yellow corn parataxis | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | bless | past | Kahp óo yoo not said here | sisters = sister | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | past | Kahp óo yoo not said here | a ear of blue corn to Blue Corn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring | past | a ear of yellow corn not said here | sisters = sister | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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