The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 75
I have several times carefully explored the _Kú-mai_--a difficult and tiresome task, thanks to the knife-like lava fragments which cover it everywhere, and which will cut a pair of new strong shoes to pieces in an afternoon.
Who acts: I, like lava fragments · What happens: have, explore, cover, cut · To what, where: Kú, pair
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 (I, like lava fragments), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 explored | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 explored | advmod |
| 6 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kú | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kú | punct |
| 9 | Kú | Kú | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 explored | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 mai | punct |
| 11 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Kú | dep |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 mai | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 task | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 task | det |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 task | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tiresome | cc |
| 17 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 difficult | conj |
| 18 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kú | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanks | punct |
| 20 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kú | appos |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 fragments | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fragments | det |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 like | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 knife | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fragments | amod |
| 26 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fragments | compound |
| 27 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thanks | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 cover | nsubj |
| 29 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cover | obj |
| 31 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 29 cover | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cut | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cut | cc |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 cut | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 cut | aux |
| 36 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 explored | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pair | det |
| 38 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cut | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 shoes | case |
| 40 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 shoes | amod |
| 41 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 shoes | amod |
| 42 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 pair | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 pieces | case |
| 44 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cut | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 afternoon | case |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 afternoon | det |
| 47 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pieces | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explore | past | I not said here | the Kú | time | carefully property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kú=Location | ||
| 3 | cover | present | the like lava fragments | Kú | everywhere property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 4 | cut | future | a pair of new strong shoes | to pieces in a afternoon result; which nsubj | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent pair=Patient to piece=Result |
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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