The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 82
Leaping upon the stone he struck it with the full length of the stick east and west, and then north and south, and sprang nimbly to the bank.
Who acts: man · What happens: leap, strike, spring · To what, where: stone, length, bank
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 struck | csubj |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaping | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 length | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 length | amod |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stick | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stick | det |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 length | nmod |
| 15 | east | east | ADV | _ | 6 struck | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 west | cc |
| 17 | west | west | ADV | _ | 15 east | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 north | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 north | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 north | advmod |
| 21 | north | north | ADV | _ | 6 struck | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 south | cc |
| 23 | south | south | ADV | _ | 21 north | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprang | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sprang | cc |
| 26 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | conj |
| 27 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 26 sprang | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bank | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bank | det |
| 30 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sprang | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | gerund | the stone | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | man | length | then | with the full length of the stick; east, north property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with length=Instrument | ||
| 3 | spring | past | man not said here | the bank | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination |
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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