The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 15
They fixed the rope and bag for him, putting the noose around the neck of the bag so that it would be closed tight when the rope was pulled.
Who acts: lassos · What happens: fix, put, close, pull · To what, where: rope, noose, neck, bag
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassos), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fixed | nsubj |
| 2 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rope | det |
| 4 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bag | cc |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rope | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fixed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 putting | punct |
| 10 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fixed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noose | det |
| 12 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neck | det |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 putting | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bag | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bag | det |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 neck | nmod |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 closed | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 closed | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 closed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 closed | aux:pass |
| 24 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 putting | advcl |
| 25 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 24 closed | advmod |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 pulled | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rope | det |
| 28 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 pulled | aux:pass |
| 30 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 closed | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | lassos = lasso | the rope and bag | for Coyote | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rope=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | put | gerund | lassos = lasso not said here | the noose | the neck of the bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noose=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 3 | close | would · passive | bag | tight property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pull | past · passive | the rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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