The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 93
When they had made a great circle on the _llano_, and killed many rabbits, some of them found T’hoo-chée-deh, and made him prisoner.
Who acts: animals, some · What happens: make, kill, find · To what, where: great circle, llano, many rabbits, T’hoo, prisoner
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 (animals, some), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 circle | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 circle | amod |
| 7 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 llano | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 llano | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 llano | punct |
| 11 | llano | llano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 circle | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rabbits | amod |
| 17 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 found | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 some | nmod |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | conj |
| 23 | T’hoo | T'hoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 T’hoo | punct |
| 25 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 T’hoo | list |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 deh | punct |
| 27 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chée | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | animals = animal | a great circle | the llano | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product | |||
| 2 | kill | past | many rabbits | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | some of animals | T’hoo chée and deh | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t'hoo=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | past | some of animals not said here | prisoner | T’hoo = t'hoo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary prisoner=Product |
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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