The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 90
First he dug around Sun-Arrow, and gave him to hold his tail.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: dig, give, hold · To what, where: Sun, Badger, 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 (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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 dug | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Arrow | punct |
| 7 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | Badger | Sun and Arrow | first property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent around sun=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | Badger not said here | Badger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | Badger's tail | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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