The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 87
So he gave to Sun-Arrow to hold by his ears, and began to pull backward.
Who acts: _ · What happens: give, hold, begin, pull · To what, where: Sun Arrow
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 (_), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Arrow | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arrow | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sun | punct |
| 7 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ears | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hold | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pull | mark |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 17 pull | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | _ | Sun Arrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to arrow=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | _ not said here | by _'s ears | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | _ not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pull | to-infinitive | _ not said here | backward property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: 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.
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