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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 45

He pounded it to powder with a stone, and mixed it with fat; and spreading it on flat leaves, put it to the Coyote’s jaw.

Who acts: deh · What happens: pound, powder, mix, spread, put · To what, where: hár, flat leaves

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 (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

nsubjobjmarkadvclcasedetoblpunctccconjobjcaseoblpunctccparataxisobjcaseamodoblpunctparataxisobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootHePRONpoundedVERBitPRONtoPARTpowderVERBwithADPaDETstoneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmixedVERBitPRONwithADPfatNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJspreadingVERBitPRONonADPflatADJleavesNOUN,PUNCTputVERBitPRONtoADPtheDETCoyotePROPN’sPARTjawNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 poundednsubj
2poundedpoundVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 poundedobj
4totoPART_5 powdermark
5powderpowderVERBVerbForm=Inf2 poundedadvcl
6withwithADP_8 stonecase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 stonedet
8stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing5 powderobl
9,,PUNCT_11 mixedpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 mixedcc
11mixedmixVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 poundedconj
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 mixedobj
13withwithADP_14 fatcase
14fatfatNOUNNumber=Sing11 mixedobl
15;;PUNCT_17 spreadingpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 spreadingcc
17spreadingspreadVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 poundedparataxis
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 spreadingobj
19ononADP_21 leavescase
20flatflatADJDegree=Pos21 leavesamod
21leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur17 spreadingobl
22,,PUNCT_23 putpunct
23putputVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin17 spreadingparataxis
24ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 putobj
25totoADP_29 jawcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Coyotedet
27CoyoteCoyotePROPNNumber=Sing29 jawnmod:poss
28’s'sPART_27 Coyotecase
29jawjawNOUNNumber=Sing23 putobl
30..PUNCT_2 poundedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1poundpastdehhárvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2powderto-infinitivedeh not said herewith a stonevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
3mixpastdeh not said herehárwith fatvn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with fat=Co-Patient
4spreadgerundhárflat leavesvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on leaf=Destination
5putinfinitivehárto the Coyote's jawvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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