The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 97
So he wound it up,[26] and holding by one end gave it a push so that it ran away from him, unrolling as it went.
Who acts: friend, holding, last · What happens: woun up, hold, give, run away, unroll, go · To what, where: last
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 (friend, holding, last), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wound | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | nsubj |
| 3 | wound | woun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wound | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 26 | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 26 | punct |
| 8 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 wound | obl |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 26 | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 gave | csubj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 end | nummod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obl |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wound | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 push | det |
| 18 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 ran | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unrolling | punct |
| 27 | unrolling | unroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 ran | advcl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 went | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 unrolling | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun up | past | friend | last | 26 obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | by one end | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by end=Location | |||||
| 3 | give | past | holding | last | a push obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient push=Theme | |||
| 4 | run away | past | last | from friend; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | unroll | gerund | last not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | past | last | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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