The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 22
Now Sun-Arrow met this great warrior; and with the help of an old Spider-woman,[84] slew him and took his scalp.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: meet, slay, take, help · To what, where: great warrior, Isleta, scalp, old Spider woman
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Arrow | punct |
| 4 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | conj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 warrior | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warrior | amod |
| 8 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 slew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slew | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 17 | Spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 woman | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Spider | punct |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 84 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 84 | punct |
| 22 | 84 | 84 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 woman | appos |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 84 | punct |
| 24 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slew | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slew | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 scalp | nmod:poss |
| 29 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Sun and Arrow | this great warrior | now | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Sun and Arrow not said here | Isleta | with the help of a old Spider woman | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with help=Instrument | |||
| 3 | take | past | Sun and Arrow not said here | Isleta's scalp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | a old Spider woman | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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