The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 22
The two were great friends, and neither thought of going to the mountain for firewood or to dig _amole_[94] without calling for the other to accompany her.
Who acts: thought · What happens: be, go, dig, call, accompany · To what, where: two great friends, mountain, amole, other · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friends | nummod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 thought | det |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | conj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 thought | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 firewood | case |
| 16 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 dig | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dig | mark |
| 19 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 friends | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 amole | punct |
| 21 | amole | amole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dig | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 94 | punct |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 94 | punct |
| 24 | 94 | 94 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 dig | obl |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 24 94 | punct |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 calling | mark |
| 27 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dig | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 calling | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 accompany | mark |
| 32 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 calling | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 accompany | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the two great friends and neither thought | neither thought conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | neither thought not said here | the mountain | for firewood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | dig | to-infinitive | amole | 94 obl | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent amole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | for the other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for other=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | accompany | to-infinitive | other | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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