The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 99
And Sun-Arrow was loosened a little more; but the stump slipped through his hands, for it was very short.
Who acts: stump, hand · What happens: loosen, slip, be · To what, where: Sun Arrow, hands
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 (stump, hand), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 loosened | cc |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Arrow | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sun | punct |
| 4 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loosened | aux:pass |
| 6 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 more | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 loosened | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipped | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 slipped | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stump | det |
| 13 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | nsubj |
| 14 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loosened | parataxis |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slipped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 short | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 short | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 short | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 short | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 short | advmod |
| 23 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slipped | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past · passive | Sun Arrow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | slip | past | the stump | stump's hands | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | hand | short property | tree rules |
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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