The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 85
They began to irrigate their fields again, and the dying crops grew green.
Who acts: people, dying crops · What happens: begin, irrigate, die, grow · To what, where: fields
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 (people, dying crops), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 irrigate | mark |
| 4 | irrigate | irrigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fields | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 irrigate | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 irrigate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crops | det |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 crops | amod |
| 12 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | irrigate | to-infinitive | people not said here | people's fields | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | grow | past | the dying crops | green property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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