The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 97
At last all the councilors met together, and decided that there must be another effort made to find the lost wife.
Who acts: last councilors, effort · What happens: meet, decide, be, make, find, lose · To what, where: effort, lost wife · 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 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 (last councilors, effort), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 councilors | amod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 councilors | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 councilors | det |
| 5 | councilors | councilor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 met | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 decided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 decided | cc |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 effort | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 be | expl |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 effort | cop |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 effort | det |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decided | ccomp |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 effort | acl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wife | det |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wife | amod |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | all last councilors | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | all last councilors not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | another effort | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | another effort not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | another effort not said here | the lost wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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