The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 105
The boy thanked his fish-friend and went on, until at last he came to the house of the Trues of the South.
Who acts: boy · What happens: thank, go on, come · To what, where: fish friend, last
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 (boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | punct |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Trues | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Trues | det |
| 22 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 house | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 South | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 South | det |
| 25 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Trues | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the boy | boy's fish friend | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | the boy not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | boy | last | to the house of the Trues of the South | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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