The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 61
The young Squirrel brought him meal and water in the acorn-cup twice a day, and now he began to be confident that he would escape.
Who acts: young Squirrel, cone · What happens: bring, begin, be, escape · To what, where: meal, cone, acorn cup
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 (young Squirrel, cone), 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 | 3 Squirrel | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Squirrel | amod |
| 3 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meal | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cup | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cup | det |
| 11 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cup | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 acorn | punct |
| 13 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 14 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 day | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 began | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 confident | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 confident | cop |
| 24 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 began | xcomp |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 escape | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 escape | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 escape | aux |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 confident | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the young Squirrel | meal and water | cone | the acorn cup | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination meal=Theme | |
| 2 | begin | past | cone | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | cone not said here | confident property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | would | cone | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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