The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 40
These inconveniences were gladly borne, however, since they preserved the children--and we all know that preserved baby is better than baby-stew.
Who acts: inconveniences, we, preserved baby · What happens: bear, preserve, know, be · To what, where: inconveniences, children · 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 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 (inconveniences, we, preserved baby), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 inconveniences | det |
| 2 | inconveniences | inconvenience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 borne | aux:pass |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 borne | advmod |
| 5 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 borne | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 preserved | punct |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 preserved | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 preserved | nsubj |
| 11 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 borne | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 preserved | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 borne | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 better | mark |
| 20 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 baby | amod |
| 21 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 better | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 better | cop |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 stew | case |
| 25 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stew | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 baby | punct |
| 27 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 better | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | this inconveniences | gladly, however property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | preserve | past | inconveniences = inconvenience | the children | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | preserve | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | preserved baby | than baby stew; good property | tree rules |
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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