The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 79
At last it happened that P’ah-whá-yoo-óo-deh, the Little Black Ant, took a journey and went up the bewitched pine, even to its top in the sky.
Who acts: it, óo deh · What happens: happen, take, go up, bewitch · To what, where: journey, bewitched pine
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 (it, óo deh), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 6 | P’ah | P'ah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whá | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 P’ah | punct |
| 8 | whá | whá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yoo | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 whá | punct |
| 10 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 óo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 yoo | punct |
| 12 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 óo | punct |
| 14 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ant | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ant | det |
| 17 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Black | amod |
| 18 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ant | compound |
| 19 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ant | punct |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 went | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pine | det |
| 28 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pine | amod |
| 29 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 top | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 top | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 top | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 top | nmod:poss |
| 34 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 sky | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sky | det |
| 37 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 top | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | óo deh | a journey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | óo deh not said here | the bewitched pine | to deh's top in the sky | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | bewitch | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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