The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 110
That very day her father gladly divided all his wealth into two equal shares, and gave half to Good, who again had to hire many cow-boys and men with _carretas_ to help him transport all this.
Who acts: father, half · What happens: divide, give, have, hire, help, transport · To what, where: wealth, two equal shares, half, Good, many cow boys, this
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, half), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divided | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divided | nsubj |
| 6 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 divided | advmod |
| 7 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 wealth | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divided | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 shares | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 shares | nummod |
| 13 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shares | amod |
| 14 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divided | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divided | conj |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Good | case |
| 20 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | nsubj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hire | mark |
| 26 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | xcomp |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 boys | amod |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boys | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 cow | punct |
| 30 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hire | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 men | cc |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 boys | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 carretas | case |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 carretas | punct |
| 35 | carretas | carreta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hire | obl |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 help | mark |
| 38 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | advcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 help | obj |
| 40 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 help | xcomp |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 this | det:predet |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 transport | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | girl's father | father's wealth | two equal shares | day | gladly property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | |
| 2 | give | past | girl's father not said here | half | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Good | again | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hire | to-infinitive | many cow boys and men | with carretas | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | half | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | transport | infinitive | half not said here | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus this=Experiencer |
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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