The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 42
They were pretty well starved when the Spaniards came and delivered the suffering Isleteños by driving off these savage neighbors.
Who acts: Spaniards · What happens: starve, come, deliver, drive off · To what, where: feelings, suffering, savage neighbors
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 (Spaniards), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 starved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 starved | aux:pass |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 starved | advmod |
| 5 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spaniards | det |
| 8 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 starved | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 delivered | cc |
| 11 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suffering | det |
| 13 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delivered | obj |
| 14 | Isleteños | Isleteños | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 suffering | appos |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 driving | mark |
| 16 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 delivered | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 driving | compound:prt |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 neighbors | det |
| 19 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 neighbors | amod |
| 20 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 driving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | past · passive | feelings = feeling | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Spaniards | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deliver | past | the Spaniards not said here | the suffering | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffering=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive off | gerund | the Spaniards not said here | this savage neighbors | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme neighbor=Trajectory |
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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