The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 24
Their teeth were just like anybody’s good teeth, and they had neither “tushes” nor horns nor hoofs.
Who acts: teeth · What happens: be, have · To what, where: tushes
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teeth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 teeth | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 teeth | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 teeth | case |
| 6 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 anybody | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 teeth | amod |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 14 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 16 tushes | advmod |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tushes | punct |
| 16 | tushes | tush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tushes | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 horns | cc |
| 19 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tushes | conj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 hoofs | cc |
| 21 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tushes | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 teeth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men's teeth | like anybody's good teeth; anybody nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | teeth = tooth | tushes nor horns nor hoofs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tush=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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