The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 17
The Hunter told his story, and the Lake-Man invited him to come in.
Who acts: Hunter, Lake Man, human · What happens: tell, invite, come in · To what, where: story, human · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hunter, Lake Man, human), 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 Hunter | det |
| 2 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | 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 | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Man | det |
| 9 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lake | punct |
| 11 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 invited | nsubj |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invited | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Hunter | human's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | the Lake Man | human | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | human not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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