The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 96
But first the Little Black Ants got the cup of an acorn, and mixed in it corn-meal and water and honey, and carried it up the tree.
Who acts: Black Ants · What happens: get, mix, carry up · To what, where: cup, corn meal
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 (Black Ants), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 got | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ants | det |
| 4 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Black | amod |
| 5 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ants | amod |
| 6 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 acorn | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 acorn | det |
| 12 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mixed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mixed | cc |
| 15 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 got | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 meal | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meal | nsubj |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meal | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 corn | punct |
| 20 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mixed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 water | cc |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meal | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 honey | cc |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meal | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carried | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 carried | cc |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mixed | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carried | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 carried | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carried | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Black Ants | the cup of a acorn | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | the Black Ants not said here | corn meal cup and water and honey | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry up | past | the Black Ants not said here | cup | the tree obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme it=Beneficiary tree=Value |
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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