The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 84
“No,” groaned Kahp-too-óo-yoo; “I am here because of the jealousy of him who was as my brother, with whom I shared my food and labor, whose home was my home, and my home his.
Who acts: son, jealousy, home · What happens: groan, be, share · To what, where: Kahp, food, home · 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 (son, jealousy, home), 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 | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 groaned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kahp | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 yoo | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 10 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yoo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 yoo | punct |
| 12 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 here | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 here | cop |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 groaned | parataxis |
| 18 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 jealousy | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 because | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jealousy | det |
| 21 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 jealousy | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 brother | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brother | cop |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 brother | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jealousy | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 whom | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 whom | case |
| 31 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 brother | appos |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 shared | nsubj |
| 33 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 whom | acl:relcl |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 food | nmod:poss |
| 35 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shared | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 labor | cc |
| 37 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 food | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 home | punct |
| 39 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 40 home | nmod:poss |
| 40 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 home | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 home | cop |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 home | nmod:poss |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 food | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 his | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 his | cc |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 home | nmod:poss |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 his | nsubj |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 groaned | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | Kahp | óo yoo obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my son = son | because the jealousy of Kahp and my brother; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the jealousy of Kahp and my brother | as my brother; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share in a quote | past | my son = son | my food and labor and my home | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | my home's home | my home | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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