The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 98
And when the Trues had given them counsel, they came to their people, and told the Cacique all.
Who acts: Trues · What happens: give, come, tell · To what, where: Trues, Cacique · 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 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 given | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Trues | det |
| 4 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | obj |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cacique | det |
| 19 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 told | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Trues | witches = witch obj; counsel obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Trues = true | to Trues's people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Trues = true not said here | the Cacique | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cacique=Recipient |
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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