The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 157
So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a _guayave_[96] and rolled it like a spoon to dip up the soup.
Who acts: each · What happens: bring, take, roll, dip up · To what, where: big bowl, guayave, soup
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 (each), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bowl | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowl | amod |
| 4 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soup | case |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowl | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guayave | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 guayave | punct |
| 15 | guayave | guayave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 96 | punct |
| 18 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 took | obl |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 96 | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rolled | cc |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rolled | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 spoon | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 spoon | det |
| 25 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 dip | mark |
| 27 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rolled | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 dip | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 soup | det |
| 30 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dip | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a big bowl of soup | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | each | a guayave | 96 obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guayave=Theme | |||
| 3 | roll | past | each not said here | guayave | like a spoon | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | dip up | to-infinitive | each not said here | the soup | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=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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