The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 100
“_Around_ me, friend,” said the Badger, when he had dug a third time; and Sun-Arrow clasped his hands around the Badger’s body, behind the fore legs.
Who acts: Badger, Sun · What happens: say, dig, clasp · To what, where: hands, body · 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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, Sun), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 3 | Around | around | ADV | _ | 5 me | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 me | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Badger | det |
| 12 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dug | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 dug | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dug | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dug | aux |
| 17 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 Badger | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dug | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 clasped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clasped | cc |
| 23 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 clasped | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Arrow | punct |
| 25 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sun | conj |
| 26 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clasped | obj |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 body | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Badger | det |
| 31 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 body | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Badger | case |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clasped | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 legs | punct |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 38 legs | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 legs | det |
| 37 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 legs | amod |
| 38 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clasped | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Badger | me ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dig | past · perfect | Badger | time | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | clasp | past | Sun and Arrow | Badger's hands | the Badger's body | behind the fore legs | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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