The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 21
When it was time to go to the house of the Woodpeckers he called his wife and children to the fire, and lashed a burning stick under each of their arms, with the burning end pointing forward; and then he fixed himself in the same way.
Who acts: fire, father, burning end · What happens: be, go, call, lash, burn, point · To what, where: time, house, wife, fire, burning stick, each · 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 Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, father, burning end), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Woodpeckers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woodpeckers | det |
| 12 | Woodpeckers | Woodpecker | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 house | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 children | cc |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wife | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lashed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lashed | cc |
| 24 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stick | det |
| 26 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 stick | amod |
| 27 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lashed | obj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 each | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 stick | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 arms | nmod:poss |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 each | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 end | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 end | det |
| 36 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 end | compound |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lashed | obl |
| 38 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 end | acl |
| 39 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 38 pointing | advmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 fixed | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fixed | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 fixed | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fixed | nsubj |
| 44 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 fixed | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 way | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 way | det |
| 48 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 way | amod |
| 49 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fixed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fire | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | father not said here | the house of the Woodpeckers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | past | father | father's wife and children | the fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic to fire=Recipient | |||
| 4 | lash | past | father not said here | a burning stick | each of Woodpecker's arms | with the burning end | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Destination with end=Theme | ||
| 5 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | point | gerund | the burning end not said here | forward property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | fix | past | father | father | the same way | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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