The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 38
So he mixed it with other roots, all pounded, and put it on the cheek of Kee-oo-ée-deh; and in a little, the toothache was gone.
Who acts: man, other roots, toothache · What happens: mix, pound, put, be · To what, where: root, all, cheek, little
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 (man, other roots, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 mixed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mixed | nsubj |
| 3 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mixed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 roots | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roots | amod |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mixed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pounded | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | pounded | pound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 roots | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mixed | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cheek | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cheek | det |
| 17 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 deh | case |
| 19 | Kee | Kee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 deh | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kee | punct |
| 21 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deh | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 oo | punct |
| 23 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deh | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 deh | punct |
| 25 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cheek | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 gone | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gone | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 little | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 gone | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 little | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 toothache | det |
| 33 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gone | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 gone | cop |
| 35 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mixed | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | past | man | root | with other roots | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with root=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | pound | participle · passive | other roots not said here | all | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | man not said here | root | the cheek of oo ée deh Kee | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on cheek=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | the toothache | a little | gone property | tree rules |
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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