The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 62
Then she gave him her blessing, and the boy started away to the east.
Who acts: animal, boy · What happens: give, start away, bless · To what, where: blessing, 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 (animal, boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 east | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 east | det |
| 15 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | animal | animal's blessing | boy | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blessing=Theme | ||
| 2 | start away | past | the boy | to the east; away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bless | animal | 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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