The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 44
But when the boy knocked, she rose and welcomed him kindly and gave him all there was in the house to eat--a wee bowl of soup with a patched-up snowbird in it.
Who acts: boy, Mole · What happens: knock, rise, welcome, give, be, eat · To what, where: boy, house
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, Mole), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 rose | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 knocked | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocked | nsubj |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocked | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 welcomed | cc |
| 10 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 welcomed | obj |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 welcomed | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 house | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 house | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 house | acl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 bowl | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bowl | det |
| 26 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bowl | amod |
| 27 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 soup | case |
| 29 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bowl | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 snowbird | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 snowbird | det |
| 32 | patched | patch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 snowbird | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 up | punct |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 patched | compound:prt |
| 35 | snowbird | snowbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bowl | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 snowbird | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | the boy | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | Mole | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | welcome | past | Mole not said here | boy | kindly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | past | Mole not said here | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the house and a wee bowl of soup with a patched snowbird in house; there | a wee bowl of soup with a patched snowbird in house conj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | Mole not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | patch up | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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