The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 11
One day the friend invited Agostin to go hunting, and next day they went to the mountains.
Who acts: friend, Agostin, sons · What happens: invite, go, hunt · To what, where: Agostin, mountains
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Agostin, sons), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | nsubj |
| 5 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invited | xcomp |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | the friend | Agostin | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agostin=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Agostin not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | Agostin not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | sons = son | the mountains | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=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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