The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 26
At last he came again to invite Kahp-too-óo-yoo to go; but this time it was with an evil purpose that he asked.
Who acts: friend, yoo · What happens: come, invite, go, be, ask · To what, where: Kahp, evil purpose
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 (friend, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 invite | mark |
| 7 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 invite | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kahp | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 yoo | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 too | punct |
| 12 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yoo | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 yoo | punct |
| 14 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invite | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 yoo | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 purpose | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 purpose | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 purpose | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 purpose | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 purpose | cop |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 purpose | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 purpose | det |
| 25 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 purpose | amod |
| 26 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 asked | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 asked | nsubj |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 purpose | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | friend | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | friend not said here | Kahp | óo yoo obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | friend not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | yoo | time | with a evil purpose | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | friend | a evil purpose not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Recipient |
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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