The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 73
T’hoo-chée-deh asked nothing; but took off the little pouch of roots and laid it beside him.
Who acts: T’hoo chée deh · What happens: ask, take off, lay · To what, where: nothing, little pouch, pouch
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), 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 | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 asked | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pouch | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pouch | amod |
| 14 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 roots | case |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pouch | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laid | cc |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | obj |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | T’hoo chée deh | nothing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take off | past | the little pouch of roots | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | pouch | beside deh | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme beside he=Destination |
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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