The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 13
They were all grateful; for no other was so kind to feed them.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, feed · To what, where: Sun
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 (Sun), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grateful | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grateful | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 grateful | advmod |
| 4 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 other | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 other | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grateful | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kind | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 kind | advmod |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grateful | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 feed | mark |
| 13 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kind | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sun | all, grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sun not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Sun not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | Sun not said here | Sun | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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