The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 67
In that time it came that Shee-íd-deh, the House-Mouse, stirred from his hole; and seeing Sun-Arrow _so_, he came to him, weeping.
Who acts: enemy, Mouse · What happens: come, stir, see, weep · To what, where: íd deh, House Mouse, hole, Sun, 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 (enemy, Mouse), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 deh | mark |
| 7 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 íd | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Shee | punct |
| 9 | íd | íd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 íd | punct |
| 11 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mouse | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mouse | det |
| 14 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mouse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 House | punct |
| 16 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stirred | punct |
| 18 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Mouse | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hole | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hole | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stirred | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seeing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seeing | cc |
| 24 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 25 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seeing | obj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Arrow | punct |
| 27 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sun | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seeing | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 weeping | punct |
| 37 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 came | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | enemy | íd deh | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stir | participle | the House Mouse not said here | Mouse's hole | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | enemy not said here | Sun and Arrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Mouse | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | Mouse not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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