The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 5
To call an Indian here “_Too-wháy-deh_” is one of the bitterest insults that can be offered him.
Who acts: wháy deh · What happens: call, be, offer · To what, where: Indian, one, bitterest insults, rabbit · 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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy deh), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 call | mark |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Indian | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 call | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 call | advmod |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 8 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 12 deh | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Too | punct |
| 10 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deh | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wháy | punct |
| 12 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nsubj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 deh | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 call | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 insults | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 insults | det |
| 19 | bitterest | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 insults | amod |
| 20 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 offered | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 offered | aux:pass |
| 24 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 insults | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 offered | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | to-infinitive | a Indian | here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent indian=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | wháy deh | one | of the bitterest insults | tree rules | |||
| 3 | offer | can · passive | the bitterest insults | rabbit | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme |
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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