The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 125
But Too-wháy-deh, the coward, he who would not hurt himself with pulling--he is a laughed-at to this day.
Who acts: deh · What happens: not hurt, pull, laugh, be · To what, where: deh, wháy deh
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 deh | cc |
| 2 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 4 wháy | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Too | punct |
| 4 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wháy | punct |
| 6 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coward | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coward | det |
| 9 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurt | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 coward | acl:relcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hurt | obj |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 pulling | mark |
| 18 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hurt | advcl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 day | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 day | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 23 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 day | advcl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughed | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | would | deh | deh | the coward nsubj | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | deh not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | participle | deh not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | deh | at a day | 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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