The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 36
The boy was now big enough to use his bow and arrows so well that he brought home many rabbits; and the witch-hearted Lake-Man began to plot to get him, too, out of the way.
Who acts: boy, hearted Lake Man · What happens: be, use, bring, begin, plot, get · To what, where: bow, many rabbits, boy
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 (boy, hearted 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 use | mark |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 big | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bow | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 use | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | advcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rabbits | amod |
| 20 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Man | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Man | det |
| 24 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hearted | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 witch | punct |
| 26 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Man | amod |
| 27 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Man | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lake | punct |
| 29 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 plot | mark |
| 32 | plot | plot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 plot | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 get | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 too | punct |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 began | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 way | punct |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 way | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 way | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 way | det |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 began | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | now | big, enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | boy's bow and arrows | well property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient | |||
| 3 | bring | past | boy | many rabbits | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the hearted Lake Man | the way parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | plot | to-infinitive | the hearted Lake Man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | the hearted Lake Man not said here | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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