The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 25
When they entered and told their story, he said: “Now I will try you.
Who acts: Twins, Káh · What happens: enter, tell, say, try · To what, where: story, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Káh), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 try | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 try | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 try | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 try | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 try | aux |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 try | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Twins = twin | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Twins = twin not said here | Twins's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Káh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try in a quote | future | Káh | you | now | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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