The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 95
Then she and the four young men took hold of the sacred cane as the Trues had showed Agostin.
Who acts: Agostin, Trues · What happens: take, have, show, hold · To what, where: hold, Agostin, sacred cane
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, Trues), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 she | conj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cane | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cane | det |
| 12 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cane | amod |
| 13 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 showed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Trues | det |
| 16 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Trues | acl |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | advcl |
| 19 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Agostin | hold of the sacred cane | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Trues not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | past | the Trues | Agostin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agostin=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hold | the sacred cane | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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