The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 31
They gathered wood and tied it in bundles to bring home on their backs, and dug _amole_, which they put in their shawls to carry.
Who acts: friends · What happens: gather, tie, bring, dig, put, carry · To what, where: wood, spot, bundles, backs, amole, shawls
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 (friends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tied | cc |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tied | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bundles | case |
| 8 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tied | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 backs | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 backs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dug | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dug | cc |
| 17 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 amole | punct |
| 19 | amole | amole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dug | obj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 dug | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 put | nsubj:outer |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dug | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 shawls | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shawls | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shawls | shawl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 put | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | friends = friend | wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | friends = friend not said here | spot | bundles | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | friends's backs | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||
| 4 | dig | past | friends = friend not said here | amole | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent amole=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | past | friends's shawls | which nsubj:outer; friends = friend nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in shawl=Destination | ||||
| 6 | carry | to-infinitive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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