The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 16
So he was ashamed, and vowed that he would prove himself a man; and taking secretly his bow and arrows and his thunder-knife, he went away by night alone, and crossed the Eagle-Feather Mountains.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, vow, prove, take, go away, cross · To what, where: man, bow, Eagle Feather Mountains
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ashamed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | cop |
| 4 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 vowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vowed | cc |
| 7 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 prove | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 prove | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 prove | aux |
| 11 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vowed | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 prove | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prove | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taking | cc |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 went | csubj |
| 18 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 17 taking | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 arrows | cc |
| 22 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bow | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 knife | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 knife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knife | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 thunder | punct |
| 27 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bow | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 night | case |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 34 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 crossed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 crossed | cc |
| 37 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Mountains | det |
| 39 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Mountains | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Eagle | punct |
| 41 | Feather | Feather | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Mountains | compound |
| 42 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 crossed | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vow | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | prove | would | man | man | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme man=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | man's bow and arrows and man's thunder knife | secretly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go away | past | man | night | alone, away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | cross | past | man not said here | the Eagle Feather Mountains | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
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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