The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 87
In a little while the younger brother arrived, with his new clothes and moccasins torn to shreds; for he had traveled far in a rough country, without meeting a soul from whom to ask advice.
Who acts: younger brother, brother · What happens: arrive, tear, travel, meet, ask · To what, where: little, new clothes, shreds, rough country, soul, advice
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 (younger brother, brother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arrived | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clothes | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clothes | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 arrived | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moccasins | cc |
| 15 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clothes | conj |
| 16 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 clothes | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shreds | case |
| 18 | shreds | shred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 torn | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 traveled | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 traveled | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 traveled | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 traveled | aux |
| 23 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 arrived | conj |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 traveled | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 27 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 country | amod |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traveled | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 meeting | punct |
| 30 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 meeting | mark |
| 31 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 traveled | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 soul | det |
| 33 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 meeting | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 whom | case |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 meeting | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 ask | mark |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 whom | advcl |
| 38 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ask | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the younger brother | a little | with brother's new clothes and moccasins | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tear | participle | brother's new clothes and moccasins not said here | shreds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shred=Destination | ||||
| 3 | travel | past · perfect | brother | a rough country | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | meet | gerund | brother not said here | a soul | whom obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | brother not said here | advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
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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