The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 3
He was not only a famous hunter and a brave warrior against the raiding Comanches, but a great wizard; and to him the Trues had given the power of the clouds.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: not be, give · To what, where: famous hunter, Kahp
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hunter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunter | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hunter | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 hunter | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hunter | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 warrior | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 warrior | det |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warrior | amod |
| 11 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunter | conj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 Comanches | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Comanches | det |
| 14 | raiding | raiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Comanches | compound |
| 15 | Comanches | comanche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 warrior | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wizard | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 wizard | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wizard | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wizard | amod |
| 20 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunter | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 given | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 given | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Trues | det |
| 26 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 him | conj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 given | aux |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hunter | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 power | det |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 given | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 clouds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 clouds | det |
| 33 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 power | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Kahp | a famous hunter and a brave warrior against the raiding Comanches but a great wizard | a brave warrior against the raiding Comanches conj; a great wizard conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | Kahp | the power of the clouds obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient power=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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