The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 28
The Cacique demurred, for this was the best hunter in all the pueblo,[63] but at last consented and gave him his blessing.
Who acts: Cacique, this · What happens: demur, be, consent, give, bless · To what, where: 63, pueblo, last, blessing, 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 (Cacique, this), 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 Cacique | det |
| 2 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 demurred | nsubj |
| 3 | demurred | demur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunter | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hunter | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hunter | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunter | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 hunter | amod |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demurred | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pueblo | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 pueblo | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pueblo | det |
| 14 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunter | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 63 | punct |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 63 | punct |
| 17 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 demurred | obl |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 63 | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 consented | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 consented | obl |
| 22 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 63 | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 demurred | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 27 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 demurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demur | past | the Cacique | 63 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | all pueblo | for the best hunter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | consent | participle | the Cacique not said here | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the Cacique not said here | Cacique's blessing | Cacique | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 5 | bless | Cacique | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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