The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 17
So she brought the boys safely, and then their dead mother; and, rubbing a magic herb on the body of the latter, soon brought her to life.
Who acts: Nana · What happens: bring, rub · To what, where: boys, magic herb, body, Nana, life
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nana), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mother | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 mother | advmod |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mother | amod |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brought | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 brought | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 herb | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 herb | amod |
| 19 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rubbing | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 body | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rubbing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 latter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 latter | det |
| 25 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 body | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rubbing | punct |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 brought | advmod |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 brought | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Nana | the boys | boys's dead mother conj; safely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | |||
| 2 | rub | gerund | a magic herb | the body of the latter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herb=Theme on body=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Nana not said here | Nana | life | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Destination |
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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