The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 132
Then, dressing himself in the splendid buckskin suit the lost wife had made him, and taking in his right hand the sacred _guaje_ (rattle), he seated himself at the head of the _mantas_ and sang:
Who acts: dressing, rú · What happens: dress, suit, lose, make, take, seat · To what, where: rú, splendid buckskin, lost wife, sacred guaje, right hand, head
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 (dressing, rú), 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 | 9 suit | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | dressing | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 suit | csubj |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 dressing | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 buckskin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buckskin | det |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 buckskin | amod |
| 8 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressing | obl |
| 9 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 suit | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taking | cc |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 suit | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 guaje | det |
| 24 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 guaje | amod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 sacred | punct |
| 26 | guaje | guaje | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 rattle | punct |
| 29 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | parataxis |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 rattle | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seated | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seated | nsubj |
| 33 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 suit | parataxis |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 seated | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 head | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 head | det |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seated | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mantas | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mantas | det |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 mantas | punct |
| 41 | mantas | manta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 head | nmod |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 seated | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sang | cc |
| 44 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seated | conj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | gerund | rú | the splendid buckskin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suit | present | dressing | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the lost wife | rú obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | dressing not said here | the sacred guaje | rú's right hand | rattle parataxis | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guaje=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 6 | seat | past | rú | rú | the head of the mantas | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 7 | sing speech: express | past | rú not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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