The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 24
The Twins did as they were bidden, and presently came to Acoma and found the house of the old Cacique.
Who acts: Twins · What happens: do, bid, come, find · To what, where: Twins, Acoma, house
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 (Twins), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Twins | det |
| 2 | Twins | Twin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bidden | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bidden | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bidden | aux:pass |
| 7 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Acoma | case |
| 13 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Cacique | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cacique | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Cacique | amod |
| 21 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Twins | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | Twins = twin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Acoma | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to acoma=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the house of the old Cacique | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
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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