The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 10
Coming to be a young man, he was a mighty hunter; but so good in his heart that he loved the animals as brothers, and they all loved him.
Who acts: man, animals · What happens: come, be, love · To what, where: young man, mighty hunter, heart, animals, man
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, animals), 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 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hunter | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 man | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coming | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coming | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hunter | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunter | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hunter | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hunter | amod |
| 12 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 good | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hunter | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 loved | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 loved | nsubj |
| 22 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 animals | det |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 loved | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 brothers | case |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 loved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 loved | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 loved | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 loved | nsubj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 loved | advmod |
| 31 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 loved | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | man not said here | a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | man | a mighty hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | man not said here | man's heart | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | love | past | man | the animals | as brothers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | love | past | animals = animal | man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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