The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 30
Time passing so, it came one day that T’hoo-chée-deh, the smallest of Mice, who lives in the little mounds around the chapparo-bush, was making his road underground, when he came to a kind of root with a sweet smell.
Who acts: Time, cure, one day, chée deh, T’hoo · What happens: pass, come, deh, live, make · To what, where: little mounds, road, kind
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 (Time, cure, one day, chée 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Time | acl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 passing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Time | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 deh | nsubj |
| 10 | T’hoo | T'hoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 T’hoo | punct |
| 12 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 deh | punct |
| 14 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smallest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 smallest | det |
| 17 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 deh | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mice | case |
| 19 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smallest | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lives | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lives | nsubj |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 deh | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mounds | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mounds | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mounds | amod |
| 26 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lives | obl |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 31 bush | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bush | det |
| 29 | chapparo | chapparo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bush | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 chapparo | punct |
| 31 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mounds | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 making | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 making | aux |
| 34 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 lives | advcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 road | nmod:poss |
| 36 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 making | obj |
| 37 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 34 making | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 came | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 came | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deh | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 kind | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 kind | det |
| 44 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 root | case |
| 46 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 kind | nmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 smell | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 smell | det |
| 49 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 smell | amod |
| 50 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | Time not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | cure | day; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deh | one day | T’hoo nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | present | chée deh | the little mounds around the chapparo bush | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mound=Location | ||||
| 5 | make | past · progressive | chée deh not said here | deh's road | underground property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product | |||
| 6 | come | past | T’hoo = t'hoo | a kind of root | with a sweet smell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kind=Initial_Location |
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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