The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 103
And when you have proved yourself, the Cacique will bring you his three daughters, from whom to choose you a wife.
Who acts: you, Cacique · What happens: prove, bring, choose · To what, where: yourself, three daughters, you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 proved | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 proved | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 proved | aux |
| 5 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 proved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cacique | det |
| 9 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 proved | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 choose | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 choose | mark |
| 20 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 choose | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choose | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · perfect | you | yourself | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | future | the Cacique | Cacique's three daughters | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination daughter=Theme | |||
| 3 | choose | to-infinitive | the Cacique not said here | you | whom obj; a wife obj | tree rules |
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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