The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 112
At the village they found their anxious parents, who had come to ask the Cacique to order all the people out to search.
Who acts: boys, anxious parents, Cacique · What happens: find, come, ask, order, search · To what, where: anxious parents, village, Cacique, people
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, anxious parents, Cacique), 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 | _ | 3 village | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parents | amod |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 parents | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cacique | det |
| 16 | Cacique | cacique | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 order | mark |
| 18 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 people | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 order | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 order | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 search | mark |
| 24 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 order | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | boys = boy | boys's anxious parents | the village | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent parent=Theme at village=Asset | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | boys's anxious parents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | boys's anxious parents not said here | the Cacique | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent cacique=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | order not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Cacique not said here | all people | out property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 5 | search | to-infinitive | the Cacique not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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