The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 83
He gave his long tail to Sun-Arrow to hold; and when he had counted “One, two, _three_!” he pulled with a great pull, so hard that his whole tail came off.
Who acts: captain, whole tail · What happens: give, hold, count, pull, come off · To what, where: long 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 (captain, whole tail), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tail | amod |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Arrow | case |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arrow | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hold | mark |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 counted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 counted | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 counted | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 counted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 counted | aux |
| 17 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | conj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 One | punct |
| 19 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 counted | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 two | punct |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 One | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 gave | obj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pulled | nsubj |
| 29 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 pull | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pull | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pull | amod |
| 33 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pulled | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hard | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 hard | advmod |
| 36 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 pulled | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 came | mark |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tail | nmod:poss |
| 39 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tail | amod |
| 40 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hard | advcl |
| 42 | off | off | ADV | _ | 41 came | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | captain | captain's long tail | to Sun Arrow; three obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient three=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | captain not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | count | past · perfect | captain | One conj | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | captain | with a great pull; hard property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with pull=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | come off | past | captain's whole tail | off property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/83/