The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 72
When he got there he found the people in great trouble, for their crops were withering and their cattle dying for want of water.
Who acts: devil, crops, cattle · What happens: get, find, wither, die, want · To what, where: people, great trouble, water
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 (devil, crops, cattle), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trouble | amod |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 withering | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 withering | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crops | nmod:poss |
| 15 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 withering | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 withering | aux |
| 17 | withering | wither | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cattle | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 withering | conj |
| 21 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 cattle | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 want | case |
| 23 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dying | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 want | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | devil | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | devil | the people | great trouble | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | |||
| 3 | wither | past · progressive | people's crops | crops's cattle conj | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | gerund | crops's cattle not said here | for want of water | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | water | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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