The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 77
There, on the ground, were his bow and arrows, with strings and feathers eaten away by time; and there was his pack of wood, tied with the rawhide thong, ready to be taken home.
Who acts: strings · What happens: be, eat away, tie, take · To what, where: bow, ground, strings, pack
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 (strings), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 were | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ground | punct |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 were | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrows | cc |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bow | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strings | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 strings | case |
| 14 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feathers | cc |
| 16 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strings | conj |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 strings | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 eaten | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pack | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 was | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pack | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pack | nmod:poss |
| 26 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 were | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pack | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tied | punct |
| 30 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pack | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 thong | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thong | det |
| 33 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thong | compound |
| 34 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tied | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ready | punct |
| 36 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thong | amod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 taken | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 taken | aux:pass |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 ready | xcomp |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 taken | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | strings and feathers | Kahp's bow and arrows | the ground; there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat away | participle | strings and feathers not said here | time | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Kahp's pack | of wood; Kahp nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tie | participle | Kahp's pack not said here | with the rawhide thong | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with thong=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive · passive | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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