The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 41
Four days were to be given for preparation, to make bets, and the like.
What happens: give, make · To what, where: Four days, bets
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 given | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 preparation | case |
| 8 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | advcl |
| 12 | bets | bet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 like | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 like | det |
| 16 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 given | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Four days | for preparation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for preparation=Asset | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | bets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bet=Product |
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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