The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 80
Sun-Arrow grasped her long tail with both hands, and she flew and flew with all her might, not caring for the pain, until her tail was pulled off.
Who acts: Sun, Bluebird · What happens: grasp, fly, not care, pull off · To what, where: long tail, tail
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, Bluebird), 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 grasped | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Arrow | punct |
| 3 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tail | amod |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasped | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hands | det |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grasped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grasped | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flew | conj |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 might | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 might | det:predet |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 might | nmod:poss |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 caring | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 caring | advmod |
| 23 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 flew | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 pain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pain | det |
| 26 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caring | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pulled | punct |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 pulled | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 pulled | aux:pass |
| 32 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flew | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 pulled | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | Sun and Arrow | Bluebird's long tail | with both hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tail=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fly | past | Bluebird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | Bluebird not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not care | gerund | Bluebird not said here | for the pain | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for pain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull off | past · passive | Bluebird's tail | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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