The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 101
_” said Nah-chu-rú-chu, pulling it back.
What happens: say, pull back · To what, where: rú · 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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 rú | discourse |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nah | punct |
| 6 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rú | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chu | punct |
| 8 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 chu | punct |
| 10 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 rú | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulling | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 pulling | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | chu rú ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull back in a quote | gerund | rú | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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