The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 120
And from the _Kú-mai_, black against the starry sky, the howl of Too-wháy-deh, wandering with his toothache, swelled across the sleeping village of the Tée-wahn.
Who acts: wháy deh, toothache · What happens: wonder, swell, sleep, howl · To what, where: sleeping village, Kú
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. 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, toothache), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Kú | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Kú | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Kú | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kú | punct |
| 5 | Kú | Kú | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mai | punct |
| 7 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Kú | appos |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 mai | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 black | punct |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Kú | parataxis |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 13 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sky | amod |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 black | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 howl | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 howl | det |
| 17 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kú | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deh | case |
| 19 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 23 deh | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Too | punct |
| 21 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deh | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 deh | punct |
| 23 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 howl | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wandering | punct |
| 25 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 deh | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 toothache | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 toothache | nmod:poss |
| 28 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wandering | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 swelled | punct |
| 30 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 toothache | acl:relcl |
| 31 | across | across | ADP | _ | 34 village | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 village | det |
| 33 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 village | amod |
| 34 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swelled | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wahn | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wahn | det |
| 37 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 wahn | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tée | punct |
| 39 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 village | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kú | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | wháy deh not said here | with deh's toothache | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swell | past | deh's toothache not said here | the sleeping village of the Tée wahn | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | howl | wháy deh | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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