The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 54
But when Sun-Arrow sat down in her house, his feet were upon the floor over the hole; and in a moment the Toad grew very great, and began to swallow him by the feet.
Who acts: Sun Arrow, Toad · What happens: sit down, be, grow, begin, swallow · To what, where: house, man
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 Arrow, Toad), 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 sat | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sat | advmod |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Arrow | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sun | punct |
| 5 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sat | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feet | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 floor | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 floor | cop |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 grew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grew | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grew | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Toad | det |
| 27 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 grew | nsubj |
| 28 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 great | advmod |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grew | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 began | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grew | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 swallow | mark |
| 35 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 began | xcomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 swallow | obj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 feet | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 feet | det |
| 39 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 swallow | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Sun Arrow | girl's house | over the hole | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | upon the floor; man's feet nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the Toad | moment | great property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the Toad not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | swallow | to-infinitive | the Toad not said here | man | by the feet | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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