The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 21
When they had gathered each a load of wood, and lashed it with rawhide thongs in bundles upon their shoulders, they trudged home--Kahp-too-óo-yoo carrying the deer on top of his wood.
Who acts: fields, Kahp, óo yoo · What happens: gather, lash, trudge, yoo, carry · To what, where: fields, load, deer, top
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 (fields, Kahp, óo yoo), 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 | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | aux |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 load | det |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 load | det |
| 7 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 load | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lashed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lashed | cc |
| 12 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lashed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 thongs | case |
| 15 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thongs | compound |
| 16 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lashed | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bundles | case |
| 18 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thongs | nmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bundles | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trudged | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 trudged | nsubj |
| 24 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lashed | parataxis |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 trudged | advmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 yoo | punct |
| 27 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 yoo | nsubj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Kahp | punct |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 yoo | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 too | punct |
| 31 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yoo | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 yoo | punct |
| 33 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trudged | obl |
| 34 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 yoo | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 deer | det |
| 36 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carrying | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carrying | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 wood | nmod:poss |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect · passive | fields = field | each load of wood obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary load=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lash | past | load | with rawhide thongs in bundles upon fields's shoulders | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with thong=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trudge | past | fields = field | home property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | yoo | Kahp | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | óo yoo not said here | the deer | top of Kahp's wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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