The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 101
They stuffed the great hide with grass, so that it looked like a Bear again, and tied a buckskin rope around its neck.
Who acts: Twins, grass · What happens: stuff, look, tie · To what, where: great hide, buckskin rope, neck
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, grass), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stuffed | nsubj |
| 2 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hide | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hide | amod |
| 5 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stuffed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 looked | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stuffed | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 Bear | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Bear | det |
| 15 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tied | cc |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stuffed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rope | det |
| 21 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rope | compound |
| 22 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tied | obj |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 neck | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tied | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | past | Twins = twin | the great hide | with grass | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hide=Destination with grass=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | grass | again | like a Bear | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | tie | past | Twins = twin not said here | a buckskin rope | grass's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/101/