The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 25
When the Trues saw that Too-wháy-deh had disobeyed, they were angry, and made it that his punishment should be to wander up and down forever, howling with the toothache and finding no rest.
Who acts: Trues, punishment, deh · What happens: see, disobey, be, make, howl, find · To what, where: wháy deh, bag, rest · 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, 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 (Trues, punishment, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Trues | det |
| 3 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 disobeyed | mark |
| 6 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 8 wháy | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Too | punct |
| 8 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deh | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wháy | punct |
| 10 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disobeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disobeyed | aux |
| 12 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 angry | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 angry | cop |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 disobeyed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 wander | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wander | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wander | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wander | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wander | mark |
| 27 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 wander | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 down | cc |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 up | conj |
| 31 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 27 wander | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 howling | punct |
| 33 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 toothache | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 toothache | det |
| 36 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 howling | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 finding | cc |
| 38 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 howling | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 rest | det |
| 40 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 finding | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Trues | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | disobey | past · perfect · passive | wháy deh | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Trues = true | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | bag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 5 | is | should | deh's punishment | forever, wander property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | howl | gerund | with the toothache | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with toothache=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | gerund | no rest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | |||||
| 8 | punish | deh | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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