The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 121
In a time it came that his father-in-law the Cacique died; and they made Sun-Arrow Cacique in his place.
Who acts: conjuror, father, guards · What happens: come, die, make · To what, where: Sun Arrow, place
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 (conjuror, father, guards), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 died | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cacique | det |
| 14 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | appos |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Arrow | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sun | punct |
| 22 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Arrow | flat |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | conjuror | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | father's father in law | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | make | past | guards = guard | Sun Arrow | father's place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product |
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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