The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 86
[83] When Good got back to the pueblo, half of all the grain and money and dresses and ornaments were piled up in a huge pile waiting for him, and half the horses and cattle and sheep were waiting in big herds.
Who acts: Good, huge pile, horses · What happens: get back, pile up, wait · To what, where: 83, half, huge pile, big herds
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 (Good, huge pile, horses), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 83 | punct |
| 2 | 83 | 83 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 got | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 83 | punct |
| 4 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 5 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pueblo | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pueblo | det |
| 10 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 grain | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 grain | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grain | det |
| 16 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 half | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 money | cc |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grain | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dresses | cc |
| 20 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grain | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ornaments | cc |
| 22 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dresses | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 piled | aux:pass |
| 24 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 piled | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 pile | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pile | det |
| 28 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pile | amod |
| 29 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piled | obl |
| 30 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 pile | acl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 waiting | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 waiting | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 waiting | cc |
| 35 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 37 horses | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 horses | det |
| 37 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 waiting | nsubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cattle | cc |
| 39 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 horses | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sheep | cc |
| 41 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 horses | conj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 waiting | aux |
| 43 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 got | advcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 herds | case |
| 45 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 herds | amod |
| 46 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 waiting | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | Good | 83 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pile up | past · passive | half of all grain and money and dresses and ornaments | a huge pile | to the pueblo | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pile=Destination | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | a huge pile not said here | for Good | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | past · progressive | half horses and cattle and sheep | big herds | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in herd=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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