The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 40
For now Eé-eh-chah has won a husband, and she shall always be honored in her own house.”
Who acts: Eé eh chah · What happens: win, honor · To what, where: husband, chah, own house
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 (Eé eh chah), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 now | case |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 won | obl |
| 3 | Eé | Eé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eé | punct |
| 5 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chah | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 eh | punct |
| 7 | chah | chah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 won | aux |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 husband | det |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 honored | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 honored | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 honored | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 honored | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 honored | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 honored | aux:pass |
| 18 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 won | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 honored | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 won | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · perfect | Eé eh chah | a husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for now=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | honor | shall · passive | chah | chah's own house | always property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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