The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 29
Then all who had daughters looked at him with good eyes, and all the maidens wished for so brave a husband.
Who acts: daughters, maidens · What happens: have, look, wish
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 (daughters, maidens), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 daughters | det |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 all | acl:relcl |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wished | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 maidens | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maidens | det |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 brave | mark |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 brave | advmod |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brave | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | all daughters | at ah; with good eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | all maidens | brave property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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