The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 118
And the War-captain picked out fifty strong young bucks for a guard.
Who acts: War captain · What happens: pick out · To what, where: fifty strong young bucks, War captain
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (War captain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 captain | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captain | det |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 War | punct |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 captain | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bucks | nummod |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bucks | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bucks | amod |
| 11 | bucks | buck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 picked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 guard | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 guard | det |
| 14 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 captain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | participle | the War captain not said here | fifty strong young bucks | for a guard | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent buck=Theme for guard=Beneficiary |
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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