The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 28
They started on again and soon met another man, to whom they asked the same.
Who acts: ornaments · What happens: start on, meet, ask · To what, where: man, same
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 (ornaments), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 started | compound:prt |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 met | advmod |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 met | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start on | past | ornaments = ornament | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | ornaments = ornament not said here | another man | whom obl; soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | ornaments = ornament | the same | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent same=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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