The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 80
When he found Kahp-too-óo-yoo there a prisoner, the Little Black Ant was astonished, and said:
Who acts: Kahp, Little Black Ant · What happens: find, be, say · To what, where: Kahp, prisoner · 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 (Kahp, Little Black Ant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 4 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kahp | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 yoo | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 8 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yoo | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 yoo | punct |
| 10 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prisoner | det |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 astonished | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ant | det |
| 16 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Ant | amod |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ant | compound |
| 18 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 astonished | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 astonished | cop |
| 20 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prisoner | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Kahp | Kahp | there | óo yoo obl; a prisoner obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent kahp=Theme prisoner=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is | past | the Little Black Ant | a prisoner not said here | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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