The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 117
At the first lake he bade them good-by and blessed them, and they trudged on alone.
Who acts: Cacique, daughters · What happens: bade, bless, trudge · To what, where: daughters, first lake
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 (Cacique, daughters), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 lake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lake | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 lake | amod |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 good | fixed |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blessed | cc |
| 12 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blessed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trudged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trudged | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 trudged | nsubj |
| 17 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 trudged | advmod |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 trudged | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Cacique | daughters = daughter | the first lake | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bless | past | Cacique not said here | daughters = daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trudge | past | daughters = daughter | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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