The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 123
As for the Bear, the Badger, and the Bluebird, they would never go to the medicine-men of their tribes to have their tails mended to grow again; for they were proud that they had suffered to help their friend.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: not go, have, mend, grow, be, suffer · To what, where: tails, friend
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 (Bear), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Bear | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 4 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Badger | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Badger | det |
| 7 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bear | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bluebird | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Bluebird | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bluebird | det |
| 11 | Bluebird | bluebird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bear | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bear | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 19 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 men | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 medicine | punct |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tribes | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tribes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 men | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | advcl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tails | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tails | acl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 grow | mark |
| 31 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 mended | advcl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 grow | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 proud | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 proud | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 proud | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 proud | cop |
| 37 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 suffered | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 suffered | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 suffered | aux |
| 41 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 proud | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 help | mark |
| 43 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 suffered | advcl |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 friend | nmod:poss |
| 45 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 help | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | would | Bear | as the Bear and the Bluebird; to the medicine men of Bear's tribes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Bear not said here | Bear's tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mend | participle | Bear's tails not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | to-infinitive | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Bear | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | suffer | past · perfect | Bear | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | help | to-infinitive | Bear not said here | Bear's friend | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |
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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