The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 64
[11] These are made by putting a certain weed called _pee-én-hleh_ into hollow reeds.
Who acts: certain weed · What happens: make, put, call · To what, where: 11, certain weed, hollow reeds, pee én hleh · 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 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 (certain weed), 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 11 | punct |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 4 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 putting | mark |
| 8 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 made | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 weed | det |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weed | amod |
| 11 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 weed | acl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 hleh | punct |
| 14 | pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hleh | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pee | punct |
| 16 | én | én | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hleh | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hleh | punct |
| 18 | hleh | hleh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 hleh | punct |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 reeds | case |
| 21 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reeds | amod |
| 22 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 putting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | 11 These | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | a certain weed | hollow reeds | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent weed=Goal | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a certain weed not said here | pee én hleh | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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