The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 89
He himself, taking a horse, rode away at once to the other pueblo, where the rich man’s daughter was sick.
Who acts: half, daughter · What happens: take, ride away, be · To what, where: horse, other pueblo
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, daughter), 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 | 4 taking | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taking | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 rode | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pueblo | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pueblo | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pueblo | amod |
| 15 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sick | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 sick | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 man | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sick | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sick | cop |
| 24 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pueblo | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | half | a horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ride away | past | half not said here | the other pueblo | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to pueblo=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | the rich man's daughter | sick property | tree rules |
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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