The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 117
Then the Cum-pah-whít-la-wen[91] went running with their bows and arrows, and brought the girl; and she was punished as are they that have the evil road.
Who acts: Cum pah, la wen, Arrow · What happens: wen, go, run, bring, punish, be · To what, where: girl
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 (Cum pah, la wen, Arrow), 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 wen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pah | det |
| 3 | Cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cum | punct |
| 5 | pah | pah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wen | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 whít | punct |
| 7 | whít | whít | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pah | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 whít | punct |
| 9 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wen | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 la | punct |
| 11 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 91 | punct |
| 13 | 91 | 91 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 wen | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 91 | punct |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 went | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bows | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bows | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 running | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arrows | cc |
| 21 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bows | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brought | cc |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 punished | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 punished | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 punished | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 punished | aux:pass |
| 31 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 went | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | cop |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 punished | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 road | det |
| 38 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 road | amod |
| 39 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wen | the Cum pah | then | 91 appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | la wen | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | la wen not said here | with Arrow's bows and arrows | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with bow=Material | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | la wen not said here | the girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | ||||
| 5 | punish | past · passive | girl | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Arrow | that nsubj; the evil road obj; have property | tree rules |
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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