The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 64
One day in 1889 Desiderio started out from the village, driving his cattle.
Who acts: Desiderio · What happens: start out, drive · To what, where: village, cattle
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 (Desiderio), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1889 | case |
| 4 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | Desiderio | Desiderio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 driving | punct |
| 12 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 started | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driving | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | Desiderio | the village | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | Desiderio not said here | Desiderio's cattle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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