The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 93
Máw-sahv and Oó-yah-wee were famous hunters, and always wished to go south; but their grandmother always forbade them.
Who acts: Máw sahv, grandmother · What happens: be, wish, go, forbid · To what, where: famous hunters, hunters
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 (Máw sahv, grandmother), 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 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sahv | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sahv | punct |
| 3 | sahv | sahv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunters | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wee | cc |
| 5 | Oó | Oó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oó | punct |
| 7 | yah | yah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 yah | punct |
| 9 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sahv | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunters | cop |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hunters | amod |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wished | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wished | cc |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 wished | advmod |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hunters | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wished | xcomp |
| 19 | south | south | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 forbade | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 forbade | cc |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forbade | nsubj |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 forbade | advmod |
| 25 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunters | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forbade | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee | famous hunters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | participle | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee not said here | always property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Máw sahv and Oó yah wee not said here | south property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forbid | past | hunters's grandmother | hunters = hunter | always property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=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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