The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 61
Agostin told the whole story of the witches’ challenge, and of how he had gone out to seek advice, and of how the little bird had brought him here, and the guard said:
Who acts: Agostin, southeast, guard, witches · What happens: tell, go out, seek, bring, say, challenge · To what, where: whole story, advice, little bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Agostin, southeast, guard, witches), 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 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 challenge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witches | det |
| 8 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 challenge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 witches | case |
| 10 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gone | cc |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 gone | mark |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 gone | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | aux |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 gone | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gone | advcl |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brought | cc |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 brought | mark |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 brought | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 brought | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 guard | det |
| 36 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Agostin | the whole story of the witches's challenge | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go out | past · perfect | southeast | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | southeast not said here | advice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the little bird | here | southeast obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the guard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | challenge | the witches | nom challenge «state 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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