Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 53
He married the second wife, but when she, too, left him he remembered the moon maiden’s words, and went out in the moonlight and lay on a bed of moss.
Who acts: father, wife, moon maiden · What happens: marry, leave, remember, go out, lay, word · To what, where: second wife, father, words, moonlight, bed
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife, moon maiden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 left | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 left | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 too | punct |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 remembered | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 maiden | compound |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 words | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 maiden | case |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 remembered | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 moonlight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 moonlight | det |
| 28 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lay | cc |
| 30 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 went | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 bed | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bed | det |
| 33 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 moss | case |
| 35 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bed | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | father | the second wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | wife | father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | father | the moon maiden's words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go out | past | father not said here | the moonlight | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | father not said here | a bed of moss | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | ||||
| 6 | word | the moon maiden | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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