The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 38
Then they shook hands and parted, Bad riding home full of joy, and Good trudging off through the sand toward Isleta, which was the largest and wealthiest pueblo of the tribe.
Who acts: wives, Isleta · What happens: shake, part, trudge off, be · To what, where: hands, Bad riding, sand, largest pueblo
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 (wives, Isleta), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shook | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 parted | cc |
| 6 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 riding | punct |
| 8 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riding | amod |
| 9 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parted | obl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 full | advmod |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riding | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trudging | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trudging | cc |
| 16 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trudging | amod |
| 17 | trudging | trudge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shook | advcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 trudging | compound:prt |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 sand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sand | det |
| 21 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trudging | obl |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 Isleta | case |
| 23 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 trudging | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pueblo | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 pueblo | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 pueblo | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pueblo | det |
| 28 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 pueblo | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wealthiest | cc |
| 30 | wealthiest | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 largest | conj |
| 31 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Isleta | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tribe | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tribe | det |
| 34 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pueblo | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | wives = wife | hands | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | part | participle | wives = wife not said here | Bad riding | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | trudge off | gerund | wives = wife not said here | the sand | toward Isleta | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sand=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Isleta | the largest pueblo | of the tribe | tree rules |
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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