The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 95
At three lakes he let the fish swim while he ate; and each time the fish came back to him.
Who acts: boy, fish, time · What happens: let, swim, eat, come back · To what, where: three lakes, 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, fish, time), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 lakes | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lakes | nummod |
| 3 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swim | nsubj |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 ate | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swim | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | boy | three lakes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | the fish | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | boy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come back | past | each time the fish | boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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