The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 91
Then he counted _three_, and pulled greatly, so that his tail came off--and Sun-Arrow was moved a very little.
Who acts: Badger, tail · What happens: count, pull, come off, move · To what, where: three, Sun
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 counted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 counted | nsubj |
| 3 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 three | punct |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 counted | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 three | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pulled | cc |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 counted | parataxis |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 pulled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 came | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 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 | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 came | compound:prt |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 moved | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 moved | cc |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Arrow | punct |
| 22 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sun | conj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moved | aux:pass |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 counted | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 little | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 little | advmod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | Badger | three | then | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull | past | greatly property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come off | past | Badger's tail | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | move | past · passive | Sun and Arrow | a little obl:unmarked | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
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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