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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 15

After a long, hard chase, Kahp-too-óo-yoo killed a deer with his swift arrows, and brought it on his strong back to the place where they had separated.

Who acts: Kahp, deer · What happens: kill, bring, separate · To what, where: deer, yoo, strong back

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, deer), 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

casedetamodpunctamodoblpunctnsubjpunctadvmodpunctcompoundpunctlistdetobjcasenmod:posscompoundoblpunctccconjobjcasenmod:possamodoblcasedetobladvmodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootAfterADPaDETlongADJ,PUNCThardADJchaseNOUN,PUNCTKahpPROPN-PUNCTtooADV-PUNCTóoNOUN-PUNCTyooNOUNkilledVERBaDETdeerNOUNwithADPhisPRONswiftNOUNarrowsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbroughtVERBitPRONonADPhisPRONstrongADJbackNOUNtoADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVtheyPRONhadAUXseparatedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_6 chasecase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 chasedet
3longlongADJDegree=Pos6 chaseamod
4,,PUNCT_3 longpunct
5hardhardADJDegree=Pos6 chaseamod
6chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing15 killedobl
7,,PUNCT_6 chasepunct
8KahpKahpPROPNNumber=Sing15 killednsubj
9--PUNCT_8 Kahppunct
10tootooADV_14 yooadvmod
11--PUNCT_10 toopunct
12óoóoNOUNNumber=Sing14 yoocompound
13--PUNCT_12 óopunct
14yooyooNOUNNumber=Sing8 Kahplist
15killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 deerdet
17deerdeerNOUNNumber=Sing15 killedobj
18withwithADP_21 arrowscase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 arrowsnmod:poss
20swiftswiftNOUNNumber=Sing21 arrowscompound
21arrowsarrowNOUNNumber=Plur15 killedobl
22,,PUNCT_24 broughtpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 broughtcc
24broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 killedconj
25ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 broughtobj
26ononADP_29 backcase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 backnmod:poss
28strongstrongADJDegree=Pos29 backamod
29backbackNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
30totoADP_32 placecase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 placedet
32placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
33wherewhereADVPronType=Rel36 separatedadvmod
34theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs36 separatednsubj
35hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 separatedaux
36separatedseparateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part32 placeacl:relcl
37..PUNCT_15 killedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1killpastKahp óo yooa deerafter a long hard chasewith Kahp's swift arrowsvn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent deer=Patient with arrow=Instrument
2bringpastKahp óo yoo not said hereyooKahp's strong backto the placevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination
3separatepast · perfectdeervn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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