The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 7
Bringing his captive home, the powerful stranger gave her the finest clothing and treated her very nicely.
Who acts: powerful stranger · What happens: bring, give, treat · To what, where: captive home, finest clothing, Truan
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 (powerful stranger), 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 | Bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 home | nmod:poss |
| 3 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 home | amod |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bringing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bringing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stranger | amod |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clothing | det |
| 12 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 clothing | amod |
| 13 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 treated | cc |
| 15 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treated | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 nicely | advmod |
| 18 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 15 treated | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | gerund | the powerful stranger not said here | San's captive home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the powerful stranger | the finest clothing | Truan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | treat | past | the powerful stranger not said here | Truan | nicely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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