The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 88
He appointed a mayordomo to take charge of this caravan, and to meet him at a certain point on the way home.
Who acts: half · What happens: appoint, take, meet, charge · To what, where: mayordomo, charge, half, certain point, caravan
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 (half), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mayordomo | det |
| 4 | mayordomo | mayordomo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 appointed | advcl |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 caravan | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 caravan | det |
| 10 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meet | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 appointed | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 point | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 point | det |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 point | amod |
| 19 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | half | a mayordomo | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayordomo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | half not said here | charge of this caravan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | half not said here | half | a certain point | on the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | charge | this caravan | nom charge «act 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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