The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 71
Then Shee-íd-deh ran from the house until he found the Dog, and to him told it all.
Who acts: Shee íd deh, deh · What happens: run, find, tell · To what, where: house, Dog, deh · 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 (Shee íd deh, deh), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shee | punct |
| 4 | íd | íd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deh | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 íd | punct |
| 6 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dog | det |
| 15 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | obl |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 it | det |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Shee íd deh | the house | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | past | deh | the Dog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Shee íd deh not said here | Dog | deh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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