The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 40
[8] They had a wonderful runner named _Pée-k’hoo_ (Deer-foot), and very soon they sent a challenge to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee for a championship race.
Who acts: people, wonderful runner, bah tóo · What happens: have, name, send, ee · To what, where: 8, Pée k’hoo, challenge
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wonderful runner, bah tóo), 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 | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 had | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 runner | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 runner | amod |
| 8 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 runner | acl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 k’hoo | punct |
| 11 | Pée | Pée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 k’hoo | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pée | punct |
| 13 | k’hoo | k'hoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 named | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 named | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 foot | punct |
| 16 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Deer | punct |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 runner | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 foot | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sent | cc |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 sent | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | nsubj |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 challenge | det |
| 27 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Nah | case |
| 29 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 37 ee | discourse |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Nah | punct |
| 31 | bah | bah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tóo | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 bah | punct |
| 33 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ee | nsubj |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 ee | punct |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 ee | advmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 too | punct |
| 37 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 race | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 race | det |
| 40 | championship | championship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 race | compound |
| 41 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ee | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | people | 8 | a wonderful runner obj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Patient | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a wonderful runner not said here | Pée k’hoo | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send | past | people | a challenge | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 4 | ee | bah tóo | for a championship race | 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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