The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 32
In a few days Kee-oo-ée-deh, the Prairie-Dog, came with his head all fat with toothache, and said:
What happens: come, say · To what, where: fat · 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | obl |
| 5 | Kee | Kee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kee | punct |
| 7 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kee | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 oo | punct |
| 9 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ée | punct |
| 11 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kee | list |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dog | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dog | det |
| 14 | Prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Dog | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Prairie | punct |
| 16 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kee | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 fat | det |
| 23 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 toothache | case |
| 25 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fat | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | parataxis |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all fat with toothache | day | with deh's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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