The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 16
Then they threw the end of the lasso over a strong branch and said:
Who acts: rope · What happens: throw, say · To what, where: end, strong branch · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rope), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lasso | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lasso | det |
| 8 | lasso | lasso | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 branch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 branch | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 branch | amod |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | rope | the end of the lasso | a strong branch | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent end=Theme over branch=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rope not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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