The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 21
He was very brave, and painted his scalp red with _páh-ree_, so that he might be known from far; and left his scalp-lock very long, and braided it neatly, so that an enemy might grasp it well.
Who acts: Isleta, enemy · What happens: be, paint, know, leave, braid, grasp · To what, where: scalp, Isleta, scalp lock
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 (Isleta, enemy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 brave | advmod |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 painted | cc |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 scalp | nmod:poss |
| 9 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obj |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 painted | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ree | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 with | punct |
| 13 | páh | páh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 páh | punct |
| 15 | ree | ree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 red | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 known | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 known | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 known | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 known | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 known | aux:pass |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 painted | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 far | case |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 known | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lock | nmod:poss |
| 30 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lock | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 scalp | punct |
| 32 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obj |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 left | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 braided | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 braided | cc |
| 37 | braided | braid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 braided | obj |
| 39 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 37 braided | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 grasp | punct |
| 41 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 46 grasp | mark |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 so | fixed |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 enemy | det |
| 44 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 grasp | nsubj |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 grasp | aux |
| 46 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 braided | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 grasp | obj |
| 48 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 grasp | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Isleta | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | past | Isleta's scalp | red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent scalp=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | might · passive | Isleta | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Isleta not said here | Isleta's scalp lock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme | ||||
| 5 | braid | past | Isleta not said here | Scalp | neatly property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | grasp | might | a enemy | Scalp | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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