The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 27
She thought very well of the offer; and he went to ask permission of the Cacique.
Who acts: offer, Cacique · What happens: think, go, ask, permit · To what, where: permission, Cacique
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 (offer, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 offer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 offer | det |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 well | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ask | mark |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Cacique | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Cacique | det |
| 17 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 permission | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | offer | well property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Cacique | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Cacique not said here | permission of the Cacique | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | permit | the Cacique | nom permission «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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