The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 18
They came often across the mountains and attacked Isleta by night, killing many people.
Who acts: Comanches · What happens: come, attack, kill · To what, where: mountains, Isleta, many people
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 (Comanches), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountains | det |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 attacked | cc |
| 8 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 attacked | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killing | punct |
| 13 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 attacked | advcl |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Comanches = comanche | the mountains | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | attack | past | Comanches = comanche not said here | Isleta | night | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isleta=Patient | |||
| 3 | kill | gerund | Comanches = comanche not said here | many people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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