The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 3
Patricio had a broad strip of rawhide across his knee, and was scraping the hair from it with a dull knife.
Who acts: Patricio · What happens: have, scrape · To what, where: broad strip, knee, hair
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: who acts (Patricio), 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 | Patricio | Patricio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 strip | det |
| 4 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strip | amod |
| 5 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rawhide | case |
| 7 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strip | nmod |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 knee | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knee | nmod:poss |
| 10 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scraping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scraping | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 scraping | aux |
| 14 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hair | det |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scraping | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scraping | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 knife | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 21 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 knife | amod |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scraping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Patricio | a broad strip of rawhide | Patricio's knee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient | |||
| 2 | scrape | past · progressive | Patricio not said here | the hair | hair | with a dull knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient from it=Source with knife=Instrument |
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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