The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 101
Then for the third time Kahr-naí-deh pulled--so mightily that he dragged Sun-Arrow clear out from the Toad’s mouth.
Who acts: deh · What happens: pull, drag, clear out · To what, where: naí deh, Sun Arrow, mouth
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 (deh), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obl |
| 6 | Kahr | Kahr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kahr | punct |
| 8 | naí | naí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deh | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 naí | punct |
| 10 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 mightily | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 mightily | advmod |
| 14 | mightily | mightily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pulled | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dragged | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dragged | nsubj |
| 17 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mightily | advcl |
| 18 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Arrow | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sun | punct |
| 20 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dragged | obj |
| 21 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dragged | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 clear | compound:prt |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Toad | det |
| 25 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Toad | case |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clear | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle · passive | naí deh | then; time | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | deh | Sun Arrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clear out | infinitive | deh not said here | the Toad's mouth | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mouth=Source |
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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