The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 5
There was a great battle, in which the Tée-wahn killed many Mice and took their scalps.
Who acts: great battle, Tée wahn · What happens: be, kill, take · To what, where: many Mice, great battle, scalps
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 (great battle, Tée wahn), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 battle | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battle | amod |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wahn | det |
| 10 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wahn | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tée | punct |
| 12 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 battle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Mice | amod |
| 15 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 scalps | nmod:poss |
| 19 | scalps | scalp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great battle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | the Tée wahn | many Mice | a great battle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | the Tée wahn not said here | Mice's scalps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme |
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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