The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 76
The Cacique told the _principales_, and they held a _junta_, and decided to let the stranger name his own price.
Who acts: Cacique, principales, stranger · What happens: tell, hold, decide, let, name · To what, where: principales, _ junta, stranger, own price · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cacique, principales, stranger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cacique | det |
| 2 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 principales | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 principales | punct |
| 6 | principales | principale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 principales | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | nsubj |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 junta | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 junta | amod |
| 14 | junta | junta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decided | cc |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decided | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stranger | det |
| 22 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 price | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 price | amod |
| 26 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 name | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Cacique | the principales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent principale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | principales = principale | a _ junta | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junta=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | the Cacique not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Cacique not said here | the stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | infinitive | the stranger not said here | Cacique's own price | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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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