The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 100
Then the Twins took their thunder-knives and skinned her.
Who acts: Twins · What happens: take, skin · To what, where: thunder knives, Sahv
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twins), 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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Twins | det |
| 3 | Twins | Twin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knives | nmod:poss |
| 6 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knives | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 thunder | punct |
| 8 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skinned | cc |
| 10 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skinned | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Twins | Twins's thunder knives | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 2 | skin | past | the Twins not said here | Sahv | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
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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