The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 33
Ees-tée-ah Muts hurried home to Acoma and killed two sheep; for he knew, as every Indian knows, that it was useless to try to escape from the witches.
Who acts: Ees, Acoma, Indian, it · What happens: hurry, kill, know, be, try, escape · To what, where: Acoma, two sheep · 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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ees, Acoma, Indian, it), 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 | Ees | ee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tée | punct |
| 3 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ees | conj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurried | punct |
| 5 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 hurried | discourse |
| 6 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hurried | nsubj |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 hurried | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Acoma | case |
| 10 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hurried | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurried | conj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sheep | nummod |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurried | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knows | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 knows | mark |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Indian | det |
| 22 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knows | nsubj |
| 23 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 useless | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 useless | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 useless | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 useless | cop |
| 28 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knows | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 try | mark |
| 30 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 useless | csubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 escape | mark |
| 32 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 try | xcomp |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 witches | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 witches | det |
| 35 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 escape | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Ees and tée | Acoma | Muts nsubj; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to acoma=Result | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Ees and tée not said here | two sheep | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Acoma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | know | present | every Indian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | it | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | from the witches | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from witch=Initial_Location |
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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