The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 28
So when he had taken the scalp to the Cacique, and they had had the round-dance, and the days of purification were over, they called Sun-Arrow the greatest warrior of the Tée-wahn, and made him second to the Cacique.
Who acts: ah, bravest, days · What happens: take, have, be, call, make · To what, where: scalp, Cacique, round dance, Sun Arrow, ah · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ah, bravest, days), 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 | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 taken | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scalp | det |
| 7 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Cacique | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cacique | det |
| 10 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 scalp | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 17 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dance | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 round | punct |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 over | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 over | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 over | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 purification | case |
| 25 | purification | purification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 days | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 over | cop |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 had | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 called | nsubj |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 31 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Arrow | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Sun | punct |
| 33 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 warrior | det |
| 35 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 warrior | amod |
| 36 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wahn | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wahn | det |
| 39 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 wahn | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tée | punct |
| 41 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 warrior | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 made | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 made | cc |
| 44 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 made | obj |
| 46 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 44 made | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Cacique | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Cacique | det |
| 49 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 made | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | ah | the scalp | the Cacique | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme to cacique=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | bravest = brave | the round dance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the days of purification | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | past | bravest = brave | Sun Arrow | the greatest warrior of the Tée wahn xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arrow=Recipient | |||
| 5 | make | past | ah not said here | ah | to the Cacique; second property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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