The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 9
When the warriors brought him here, a Grandmother who was very poor took him for her son, and reared him, loving him greatly, and teaching him all the works of men.
Who acts: warriors, Grandmother, men · What happens: bring, be, take, rear, love, teach · To what, where: Ute, works
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 (warriors, Grandmother, men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warriors | det |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Grandmother | det |
| 9 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 poor | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poor | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 poor | advmod |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reared | cc |
| 21 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reared | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 loving | punct |
| 24 | loving | love | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 reared | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 loving | obj |
| 26 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 24 loving | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 teaching | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 teaching | cc |
| 29 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 loving | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 teaching | obj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 works | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 works | det |
| 33 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 teaching | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 men | case |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 works | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the warriors | Ute | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | a Grandmother | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a Grandmother | Ute | for Grandmother's son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for son=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | rear | past | a Grandmother not said here | Ute | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | love | gerund | a Grandmother not said here | Ute | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | teach speech: other | gerund | a Grandmother not said here | all works of men | Ute | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient work=Topic | |||
| 7 | work | men | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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