The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 4
One day a handsome stranger stole her and took her away to his home, which was in the heart of the Snow Mountain (Mt.
Who acts: handsome stranger, home · What happens: steal, take away, be · To what, where: chief, heart
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome stranger, home), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stranger | amod |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stole | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 heart | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heart | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 home | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mountain | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mountain | compound |
| 24 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Mt | punct |
| 26 | Mt | Mt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mountain | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | a handsome stranger | chief | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away | past | a handsome stranger not said here | chief | to stranger's home and the heart; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | stranger's home and the heart | the heart | of the Snow Mountain and Mt | 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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