The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 74
And then rubbing a little wood-ashes on his hands, he put them on the stomach and breast of the Badger, rubbing and feeling.
Who acts: deh · What happens: rub, put, feel · To what, where: little wood ashes, hands, ashes, stomach
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rubbing | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rubbing | advmod |
| 3 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 put | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ashes | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ashes | amod |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ashes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wood | punct |
| 8 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rubbing | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ashes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 stomach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stomach | det |
| 18 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 breast | cc |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stomach | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Badger | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Badger | det |
| 23 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 breast | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rubbing | punct |
| 25 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 put | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 feeling | cc |
| 27 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 rubbing | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | deh not said here | a little wood ashes | deh's hands | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on hand=Destination | ||
| 2 | put | past | deh | ashes = ash | the stomach and breast of the Badger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stomach=Destination | |||
| 3 | rub | gerund | deh not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | deh not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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