The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 86
He pounded on the door and ordered them to give him his lightning, but the boys refused.
Who acts: wrath, boys · What happens: pound, order, give, refuse · To what, where: door, lightnings, lightning, wrath
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 (wrath, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pounded | nsubj |
| 2 | pounded | pound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pounded | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ordered | cc |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pounded | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ordered | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lightning | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pounded | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pound | past | wrath | the door | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on door=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | order | past | wrath not said here | lightnings = lightning | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | wrath's lightning | wrath | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lightning=Theme | |||
| 4 | refuse | past | the boys | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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