The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 116
Sun-Arrow told them all that was; and when the Father-of-all-Medicine looked in the sacred _cajete_[90] he saw the evil-hearted girl paying the Spider-woman.
Who acts: Sun, Father, evil hearted girl · What happens: tell, be, look, see, pay · To what, where: Arrow, that, 90, Spider woman · 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 (Sun, Father, evil hearted girl), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arrow | punct |
| 3 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 that | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 told | ccomp |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 that | cop |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 looked | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Father | det |
| 13 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Medicine | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Medicine | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Medicine | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 19 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Father | conj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cajete | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cajete | det |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cajete | amod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 sacred | punct |
| 25 | cajete | cajete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 90 | punct |
| 28 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 saw | obl |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 90 | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 girl | det |
| 33 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 girl | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 evil | punct |
| 35 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 girl | amod |
| 36 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | obj |
| 37 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 girl | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 woman | det |
| 39 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 woman | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Spider | punct |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paying | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Sun and Arrow | Arrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the Father and all Medicine | in the sacred cajete | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cajete=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | father | 90 | the evil hearted girl obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | pay | gerund | the evil hearted girl not said here | the Spider woman | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Asset |
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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