The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 13
He went to the inner room and looked around, and when he found the baby cooking he was grieved, as any good husband would be, for then he knew that his wife was a witch.
Who acts: husband, good husband, wife · What happens: go, look around, find, grieve, be · To what, where: inner room, baby cooking, husband, witch
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, good husband, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 5 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 found | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cooking | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cooking | compound |
| 17 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grieved | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grieved | aux:pass |
| 20 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cooking | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 knew | mark |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 husband | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 husband | amod |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 knew | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 knew | cop |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 then | case |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 knew | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 witch | mark |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 witch | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 witch | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 witch | det |
| 38 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knew | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | husband | the inner room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look around | past | husband not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | husband | the baby cooking | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grieve | past · passive | husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | would | any good husband | husband nsubj; know property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | husband's wife | a witch | tree rules |
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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