The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 72
He put them back, and coming to town straightway told the medicine-men of the Black Eyes--one of the two parties here.
Who acts: Desiderio, coming · What happens: put back, come, tell · To what, where: Ogres, town straightway, medicine men · 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 (Desiderio, coming), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 told | csubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 straightway | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 straightway | compound |
| 10 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 13 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 medicine | punct |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Eyes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Eyes | det |
| 18 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Eyes | amod |
| 19 | Eyes | Eye | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 men | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 told | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 parties | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 parties | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 parties | nummod |
| 25 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 parties | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past | Desiderio | Ogres = ogre | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | town straightway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to straightway=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | coming | the medicine men of the Black Eyes | one of the two parties ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
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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