The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 43
“Now you,” he said, coming down; and Kahp-too-óo-yoo climbed the tree and rode on the swinging branch.
Who acts: friend, Kahp · What happens: say, come down, climb, swing · To what, where: tree, swinging branch · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 you | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 climbed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 climbed | cc |
| 13 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 climbed | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kahp | punct |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 yoo | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 too | punct |
| 17 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yoo | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 óo | punct |
| 19 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Kahp | list |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 climbed | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rode | cc |
| 24 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 branch | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 branch | det |
| 27 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 branch | amod |
| 28 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 climbed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend | you ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come down | gerund | friend not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | Kahp óo yoo | the tree and rode | the swinging branch | tree rules | |||
| 4 | swing | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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