The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 117
The Cacique gave them his two daughters for wives, and all the people did them honor.
Who acts: Cacique, people · What happens: give, honor · To what, where: two daughters, heroes
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 (Cacique, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cacique | det |
| 2 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 daughters | nummod |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wives | case |
| 9 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 honor | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 honor | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 people | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 honor | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 honor | aux |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 honor | nsubj |
| 17 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Cacique | Cacique's two daughters | heroes = hero | for wives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient daughter=Theme for wife=Asset | ||
| 2 | honor | past · do-support | all people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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