The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 115
And the boy and the Cacique’s daughter were married and started homeward, carrying the ice and many presents.
What happens: marry, start, carry · To what, where: boy, homeward, ice
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: 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 | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 daughter | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cacique | det |
| 6 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cacique | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux:pass |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | conj |
| 13 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carrying | punct |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 started | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ice | det |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 presents | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 presents | amod |
| 20 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ice | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the boy and the Cacique's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | start | past | homeward | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the ice and many presents | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme |
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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