The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 55
Sun-Arrow kicked and fought, for he was very strong.
Who acts: Sun, man · What happens: kick, fight, be
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, 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arrow | punct |
| 3 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fought | cc |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kicked | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 strong | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strong | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 strong | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 strong | advmod |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fought | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | Sun and Arrow | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | Sun and Arrow not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | man | strong property | tree rules |
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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