The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 20
She roasted the corn and gave it to the people, who took it eagerly, for they were starving.
Who acts: hereafter, people · What happens: roast, give, take, starve · To what, where: corn, ear, people
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hereafter, people), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roasted | nsubj |
| 2 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corn | det |
| 4 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roasted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roasted | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 starving | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 starving | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 starving | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 starving | aux |
| 20 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 took | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | past | hereafter | the corn | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | hereafter not said here | ear | the people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to people=Recipient | |||
| 3 | take | past | the people | ear | eagerly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | starve | past · progressive | people | tree rules |
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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