The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 45
“We do this to one another,” taunted the false friend, as the tree shot up; and taking the wood, and the deer which Kahp-too-óo-yoo had killed, he went to the village.
Who acts: We, tree, Kahp · What happens: do, taunt, shoot up, take, yoo, kill · To what, where: this, one, false friend, wood, deer, village · 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 (We, tree, 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 | _ | 10 taunted | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taunted | parataxis |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 do | obl |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 10 | taunted | taunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 12 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taunted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shot | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 shot | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shot | nsubj |
| 18 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taunted | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 shot | compound:prt |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taking | cc |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 taunted | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taking | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 killed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 killed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 deer | det |
| 28 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 yoo | nsubj |
| 30 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 yoo | nsubj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Kahp | punct |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 yoo | advmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 too | punct |
| 34 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 yoo | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 óo | punct |
| 36 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 killed | aux |
| 38 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 taunted | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | nsubj |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taunted | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 village | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 village | det |
| 44 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 taunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | We | this | one | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | taunt | past | the false friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shoot up | past | the tree | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | the wood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||||
| 5 | yoo | which nsubj; Kahp nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the deer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go | past | Kahp | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location |
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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