The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 7
They started in life with equal prospects, married young, and settled in the same town.
Who acts: friends · What happens: start, marry, settle · To what, where: life, equal prospects, same town
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 (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 | 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 prospects | case |
| 6 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prospects | amod |
| 7 | prospects | prospect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 started | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 prospects | acl |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 married | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 settled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 settled | cc |
| 13 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 town | amod |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 settled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | friends = friend | life | with equal prospects | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with prospect=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | marry | participle | equal prospects not said here | young property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | friends = friend not said here | the same town | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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