The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 10
The Tée-wahn woke and caught up their bows and arrows, but only to find them useless.
Who acts: Tée · What happens: wake, catch up, find · To what, where: bows
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tée), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tée | det |
| 2 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wahn | punct |
| 4 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tée | conj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caught | cc |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woke | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 caught | compound:prt |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bows | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bows | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 find | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 woke | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 find | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the Tée and wahn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | catch up | past | the Tée and wahn not said here | Tée's bows and arrows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the Tée and wahn not said here | bows = bow | useless property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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