The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 54
But only the birds and the snakes, who were not at the Council of the Four feet, they do not respect T’hoo-chée-deh.
Who acts: birds, feet · What happens: not be, not respect · To what, where: Council, T’hoo, birds
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 (birds, feet), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 birds | cc |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 birds | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 snakes | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snakes | det |
| 7 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Council | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 Council | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Council | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Council | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Council | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Council | det |
| 14 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feet | det |
| 17 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Council | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 respect | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 respect | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 respect | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 respect | advmod |
| 23 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Council | conj |
| 24 | T’hoo | T'hoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 respect | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 T’hoo | punct |
| 26 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 T’hoo | list |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 deh | punct |
| 28 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chée | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the birds and the snakes and the Council | the Council | of the Four feet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not respect | present · do-support | feet = foot | T’hoo chée and deh | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer t'hoo=Stimulus |
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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