The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 112
When the jealous Bad saw this fine horse going to the house of his friend, he ran over to see what it meant; and while he was still there, Good arrived with all his wealth.
Who acts: jealous Bad, fine horse, father, horse, Good · What happens: see, go, run over, mean, be, arrive · To what, where: fine horse, house
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 (jealous Bad, fine horse, father, horse), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bad | det |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bad | amod |
| 4 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 horse | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ran | advcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meant | nsubj |
| 24 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 arrived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 arrived | cc |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 there | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 there | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 there | cop |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 there | advmod |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 arrived | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 there | punct |
| 33 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 arrived | nsubj |
| 34 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 wealth | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 wealth | det:predet |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 arrived | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the jealous Bad | this fine horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | this fine horse not said here | the house of father's friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run over | past | father | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | father not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | past | horse | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | father | still | there property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | arrive | past | Good | with father's wealth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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