The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 44
But the false friend bewitched the pine, and suddenly it grew in a moment to the very sky, carrying Kahp-too-óo-yoo.
Who acts: false friend, pine · What happens: bewitch, grow, carry · To what, where: pine, 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 (false friend, pine), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bewitched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bewitched | nsubj |
| 5 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pine | det |
| 7 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bewitched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 grew | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bewitched | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 sky | advmod |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carrying | punct |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 grew | advcl |
| 22 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kahp | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 yoo | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 too | punct |
| 26 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yoo | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 óo | punct |
| 28 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | past | the false friend | the pine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pine=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | pine | moment | to the sky; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | pine not said here | Kahp | óo yoo obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahp=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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