The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 22
Good agreed--for an Indian cannot back out of a challenge,--and so the next morning the two friends took the public road.
Who acts: two friends · What happens: agree, take · To what, where: public road
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 (two friends), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 agreed | amod |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 challenge | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 challenge | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 challenge | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 challenge | amod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 challenge | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 back | advmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 challenge | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 challenge | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 challenge | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 challenge | det |
| 13 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 morning | amod |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 friends | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 friends | nummod |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 challenge | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 26 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 road | amod |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | a Indian challenge parataxis | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the two friends | the public road | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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