The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 65
The Squirrel-mother came with him to the ground, and he thanked her for her kindness.
Who acts: Squirrel mother, friend · What happens: come, thank · To what, where: ground, last
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 (Squirrel mother, friend), 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 | 4 mother | det |
| 2 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Squirrel | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thanked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thanked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thanked | nsubj |
| 14 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thanked | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 kindness | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Squirrel mother | the ground | with friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | friend | last | for last's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
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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