The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 39
And when parents were forced to go away and leave the babies behind, the poor young ones were inclosed in their safe but gloomy prisons, and there in darkness and silence had to await the parental home-coming.
Who acts: parents, silence · What happens: force, go away, leave, inclose, have, await · To what, where: parents, babies, poor young ones, safe prisons
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, silence), 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 | _ | 5 forced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 forced | advmod |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forced | aux:pass |
| 5 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forced | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leave | cc |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 babies | det |
| 12 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 10 leave | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inclosed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ones | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 inclosed | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 inclosed | aux:pass |
| 20 | inclosed | inclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forced | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 prisons | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prisons | nmod:poss |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 prisons | amod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 gloomy | cc |
| 25 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 safe | conj |
| 26 | prisons | prison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 inclosed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 there | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 there | cc |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 forced | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 darkness | case |
| 31 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 there | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 had | cc |
| 33 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forced | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 await | mark |
| 36 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 had | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 coming | det |
| 38 | parental | parental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 coming | amod |
| 39 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 coming | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 home | punct |
| 41 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 await | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | parents | there | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go away | to-infinitive | parents not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | parents not said here | the babies | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 4 | inclose | past · passive | the poor young ones | parents's safe prisons | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | silence | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | await | to-infinitive | silence not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | come | gerund | silence not said here | home compound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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