The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 8
But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the storms, and she became very lonesome, for there was no one to keep her company but Mast-Truan’s wrinkled old mother.
Who acts: most, Truan, one, Truan ’s · What happens: have, be, attend, become, keep, wrinkle · To what, where: home, company, old mother
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 (most, Truan, one, Truan ’s), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 away | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 away | cop |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attending | punct |
| 14 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 had | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 storms | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 storms | det |
| 17 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 attending | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 lonesome | advmod |
| 23 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 became | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 was | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 was | mark |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 became | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 keep | mark |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 one | acl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 company | nmod:poss |
| 33 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keep | obj |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 wrinkled | cc |
| 35 | Mast | Mast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Truan | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Mast | punct |
| 37 | Truan | Truan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 ’s | compound |
| 38 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 wrinkled | nsubj |
| 39 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 keep | conj |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 mother | amod |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wrinkled | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | most of the time | stranger nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | most of the time not said here | home | away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | attend | gerund | most of the time not said here | to the storms | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to storm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Truan | lonesome property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | no one not said here | Truan's company | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wrinkle | past | Truan ’s | old mother | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
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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