The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 31
T’hoo-chée-deh was very wise; and he took the root, and put it with others in a buckskin pouch he carried under his left arm.
Who acts: T’hoo chée deh, deh · What happens: be, take, put, carry · To what, where: root, buckskin pouch, left arm
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 (T’hoo chée deh, 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 | T’hoo | T'hoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 T’hoo | punct |
| 3 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 chée | punct |
| 5 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wise | advmod |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 root | det |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pouch | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pouch | det |
| 23 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pouch | compound |
| 24 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | nsubj |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pouch | acl:relcl |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 arm | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 arm | nmod:poss |
| 29 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 arm | amod |
| 30 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | T’hoo chée deh | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | deh | the root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | deh not said here | root | a buckskin pouch | with others | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pouch=Destination | ||
| 4 | carry | past | deh | a buckskin pouch not said here | deh's left arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=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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