The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 9
Agostin, her elder son, was a famous hunter, and very often went to the mountains with a friend of his who had an evil spirit--though Agostin was not aware of that.
Who acts: Agostin · What happens: be, go, not be · To what, where: famous hunter, 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 (Agostin), 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 | 10 hunter | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Agostin | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Agostin | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunter | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hunter | amod |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 often | advmod |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunter | 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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 friend | det |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 spirit | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 spirit | aux |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spirit | det |
| 27 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spirit | compound |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | nmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 aware | punct |
| 30 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 aware | mark |
| 31 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 aware | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 aware | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 aware | advmod |
| 34 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 went | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 that | case |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 aware | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Agostin | a famous hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Agostin not said here | the mountains | with a friend of friend's evil spirit; often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not is | past | Agostin | of that; aware property | 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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