The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 33
And he welcomed them gladly, and sent them back with new dresses and jewelry to bring their mother.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: welcome, send back, bring · To what, where: grandchildren, mother
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 (doubt), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 welcomed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcomed | nsubj |
| 3 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcomed | obj |
| 5 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 welcomed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcomed | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dresses | case |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dresses | amod |
| 13 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jewelry | cc |
| 15 | jewelry | jewelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dresses | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | doubt | grandchildren = grandchild | gladly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | send back | past | doubt not said here | grandchildren = grandchild | with new dresses and jewelry | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | doubt not said here | grandchildren's mother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=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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