The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 68
It was evening when they returned with a big load of wood, which Máw-Sahv had taken pains to get green.
Who acts: Sun, boys · What happens: be, return, take, get · To what, where: evening, Máw
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 (Sun, boys), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | cop |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 returned | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 load | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 load | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 load | amod |
| 10 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 load | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 taken | obj |
| 15 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sahv | punct |
| 17 | Sahv | Sahv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Máw | flat |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wood | acl:relcl |
| 20 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | advcl |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sun | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | boys = boy | with a big load of wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | Máw | wood obj; pains obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | green property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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