The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 67
So she told them to come down, and gave them some sweet cakes, and then sent them out to bring her some more wood.
Who acts: woman · What happens: tell, come down, give, send out, bring · To what, where: boys, sweet cakes, more wood, woman · 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 (woman), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 cakes | det |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cakes | amod |
| 14 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sent | advmod |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 wood | det |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 wood | amod |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | woman | boys = boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come down not said to happen | to-infinitive | woman not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | woman not said here | some sweet cakes | boys = boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cake=Theme | |||
| 4 | send out | past | woman not said here | boys = boy | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | bring | to-infinitive | woman not said here | some more wood | woman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination wood=Theme |
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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