The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 110
Then the troubled people got the Badger to search, for he is best of all the beasts at digging--and he it was whom the Trues employed to dig the caves in which the people first dwelt when they came to this world.
Who acts: troubled people, Badger, beasts, Trues, people · What happens: get, search, be, dig, employ, dwell · To what, where: Badger, caves, world
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man 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 (troubled people, Badger, beasts, Trues), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badger | det |
| 7 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 search | mark |
| 9 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 best | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 best | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 best | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 best | cop |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 search | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beasts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 beasts | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beasts | det |
| 18 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 best | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 digging | mark |
| 20 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 beasts | acl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 whom | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 whom | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 whom | nsubj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 whom | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 whom | cop |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 employed | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Trues | det |
| 28 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 employed | nsubj |
| 29 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 dig | mark |
| 31 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 employed | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 caves | det |
| 33 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dig | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 dwelt | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 dwelt | nsubj |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 dwelt | advmod |
| 39 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 caves | acl:relcl |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 came | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 dwelt | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the troubled people | the Badger | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | the Badger not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Badger | of all beasts; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | all beasts not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Badger | last nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | employ | past | the Trues | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | dig | to-infinitive | the Trues not said here | the caves | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 8 | dwell | past | the people | the caves | first property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 9 | come | past | people | this world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to world=Initial_Location |
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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