The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 111
At the appointed spot he found his mayordomo; and putting all the stock together, with many herders, and all the wagons full of corn and dresses and ornaments and money together, started homeward, sending ahead a messenger on a beautiful horse to apprise his wife.
Who acts: father · What happens: appoint, find, put, start, send, apprise · To what, where: mayordomo, appointed spot, stock, homeward, messenger, wife
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 spot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spot | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spot | amod |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mayordomo | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mayordomo | mayordomo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 putting | cc |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 stock | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stock | det |
| 14 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 putting | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 herders | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 herders | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 herders | amod |
| 19 | herders | herder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 putting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 wagons | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wagons | det |
| 24 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | nsubj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 corn | case |
| 27 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dresses | cc |
| 29 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 corn | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ornaments | cc |
| 31 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dresses | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 money | cc |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 corn | conj |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 full | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 started | punct |
| 36 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 37 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 started | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sending | punct |
| 39 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 started | advcl |
| 40 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 39 sending | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 messenger | det |
| 42 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sending | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 horse | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 horse | det |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 horse | amod |
| 46 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sending | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 apprise | mark |
| 48 | apprise | apprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 sending | advcl |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wife | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 apprise | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | find | past | father | father's mayordomo | the appointed spot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mayordomo=Theme at spot=Asset | |||
| 3 | put | gerund | father not said here | all stock | with many herders; together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stock=Goal | |||
| 4 | start | past | father not said here | homeward | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | send | gerund | father not said here | a messenger | on a beautiful horse; ahead property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 6 | apprise speech: other | to-infinitive | father not said here | father's wife | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=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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