The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 89
“Now it is to you, Kahr-naí-deh,” said the Mountain Lion; and the Badger came out to try.
Who acts: ear, Mountain Lion, Badger · What happens: be, say, come out, try · 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 (ear, Mountain Lion, Badger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 you | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 you | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 8 | Kahr | Kahr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kahr | punct |
| 10 | naí | naí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 naí | punct |
| 12 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 you | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lion | det |
| 17 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lion | compound |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Badger | det |
| 22 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 try | mark |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 came | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | ear | now | to you; Kahr naí deh appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mountain Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the Badger | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | the Badger not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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