The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 34
A small hoop of willow is painted gaily, and has ornamental buckskin thongs stretched across it from side to side, spoke-fashion.
What happens: paint, have, stretch, speak · To what, where: small hoop, ornamental buckskin thongs, willow, fashion · 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hoop | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hoop | amod |
| 3 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 willow | case |
| 5 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hoop | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | aux:pass |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 painted | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | parataxis |
| 12 | ornamental | ornamental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thongs | amod |
| 13 | buckskin | buckskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thongs | amod |
| 14 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thongs | acl |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stretched | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stretched | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | conj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fashion | punct |
| 25 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present · passive | a small hoop of willow | gaily property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | present | ornamental buckskin thongs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thong=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | ornamental buckskin thongs not said here | willow | from side to side | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Location | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | fashion | tree rules |
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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