The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 48
For my husband trapped that bird these many years ago, but we could never get another; and that is all we have had to eat ever since.
Who acts: we, that · What happens: trap, not get, be, eat · To what, where: husband, another
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 (we, that), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 trapped | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trapped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trapped | obj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 years | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 trapped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trapped | conj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 had | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 had | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | aux |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 trapped | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 had | xcomp |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 since | advmod |
| 29 | since | since | ADV | _ | 27 eat | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle · passive | my husband | that bird obj; ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | we | another | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | that | we nsubj; all, have property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | that not said here | ever | since property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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