The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 153
In the spring the people planted, and in the fall the crops were so great that all the town could not hold them; so that which was left they brought to Shee-eh-whíb-bak (Isleta), where we enjoy it to this day.
Who acts: people, crops, town, we · What happens: plant, be, not hold, leave, bring, enjoy · To what, where: fall, crops, eh whíb bak, town
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 (people, crops, town, we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 spring | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spring | det |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 planted | nsubj |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 great | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fall | det |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crops | det |
| 13 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 great | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 planted | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 hold | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 town | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hold | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 hold | advmod |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 great | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hold | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 left | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 left | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux:pass |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 planted | conj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 bak | case |
| 34 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bak | nsubj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Shee | punct |
| 36 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bak | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 eh | punct |
| 38 | whíb | whíb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bak | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 bak | punct |
| 40 | bak | bak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obl |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Isleta | punct |
| 42 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bak | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Isleta | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 enjoy | punct |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 enjoy | advmod |
| 46 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 enjoy | nsubj |
| 47 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 bak | conj |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 enjoy | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 day | case |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 day | det |
| 51 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 enjoy | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past | the people | spring | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the crops | the fall | great property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not hold | could | all town | crops = crop | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | which nsubj:pass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | past | people | eh whíb bak Shee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bak=Destination | ||||
| 6 | enjoy | present | we | town | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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