The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 54
And soon the crops grew yellow in the fields, and the springs failed, and the animals walked like weary shadows; for Kahp-too-óo-yoo, he who had the power of the clouds, was gone, and there was no rain.
Who acts: crops, springs, animals, Kahp, rain · What happens: grow, fail, walk, have, be · To what, where: óo yoo, power
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 (crops, springs, animals, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crops | det |
| 4 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fields | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fields | det |
| 9 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 yellow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 failed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 failed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 springs | det |
| 13 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 failed | nsubj |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 animals | det |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 failed | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 shadows | case |
| 21 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shadows | amod |
| 22 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 walked | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 yoo | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Kahp | case |
| 25 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 yoo | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kahp | punct |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 yoo | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 too | punct |
| 29 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 yoo | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 óo | punct |
| 31 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 yoo | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 power | det |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 clouds | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 clouds | det |
| 40 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 power | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 gone | punct |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 gone | cop |
| 43 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 had | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 was | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 was | cc |
| 46 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 47 was | expl |
| 47 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 gone | parataxis |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 rain | det |
| 49 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 was | nsubj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the crops | óo yoo for Kahp | soon, yellow property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fail | past | the springs | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | the animals | like weary shadows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Kahp | the power of the clouds | óo yoo for Kahp nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | past | gone property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | past | no rain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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