The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 48
They got their mothers to give them some tortillas,[44] and with this lunch they started for the Bosque (a 10,000-foot peak twenty miles east of Isleta).
Who acts: boys, mothers · What happens: get, give, start · To what, where: mothers, tortillas, boys
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, mothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 tortillas | det |
| 9 | tortillas | tortilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 44 | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 44 | punct |
| 12 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 got | obl |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 44 | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 started | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lunch | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 lunch | det |
| 17 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 started | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Bosque | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bosque | det |
| 22 | Bosque | Bosque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 started | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 peak | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 peak | det |
| 25 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 foot | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 10,000 | punct |
| 27 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peak | compound |
| 28 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Bosque | appos |
| 29 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 miles | nummod |
| 30 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 east | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | east | east | ADV | _ | 28 peak | advmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Isleta | case |
| 33 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 peak | nmod |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 peak | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | boys = boy | boys's mothers | 44 obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | boys's mothers not said here | some tortillas | boys = boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tortilla=Theme | |||
| 3 | start | past | boys = boy | with this lunch; for the Bosque | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lunch=Subeventuality |
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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