The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 34
Taking the hearts of the sheep, he quickly returned to the chief witch, to whom he gave them.
Who acts: Indian · What happens: take, return, give · To what, where: hearts
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 (Indian), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hearts | det |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sheep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sheep | det |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hearts | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 witch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 witch | amod |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whom | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 returned | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Indian not said here | the hearts of the sheep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Indian | to the chief witch; whom obl; quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location to whom=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Indian | hearts = heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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