The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 31
The Lake-Man met them cordially, and gave the house and all its contents into the charge of the woman.
Who acts: Lake Man · What happens: meet, give, charge · To what, where: hunters, house, charge, woman
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 (Lake Man), 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 | 4 Man | det |
| 2 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lake | punct |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | obj |
| 7 | cordially | cordially | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 contents | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 contents | det:predet |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 contents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 house | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 charge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 charge | det |
| 19 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 charge | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the Lake Man | hunters = hunter | cordially property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | give | past | the Lake Man not said here | the house and house's contents | the charge of the woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 3 | charge | the woman | nom charge «act 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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