The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 116
When they came to the great forest, there was the Fish-Animal waiting for them, and taking both on his back he carried them safely through.
Who acts: daughters, Fish Animal, Cacique · What happens: come, be, wait, take, carry · To what, where: great forest, both, back, daughters
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 (daughters, Fish Animal, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 was | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forest | amod |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Animal | det |
| 12 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Animal | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fish | punct |
| 14 | Animal | Animal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Animal | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taking | cc |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 waiting | conj |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 taking | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | nsubj |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taking | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 26 carried | advmod |
| 29 | through | through | ADV | _ | 26 carried | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | daughters = daughter | the great forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the Fish Animal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the Fish Animal not said here | for daughters = daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | the Fish Animal not said here | both | Cacique's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent both=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 5 | carry | past | Cacique | daughters = daughter | safely, through property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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