The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 73
They held a _junta_; and after mature deliberation decided to go and get the masks.
Who acts: Ogres · What happens: hold, decide, go, get · To what, where: _ junta, masks
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 (Ogres), 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 | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 junta | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 junta | amod |
| 5 | junta | junta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 decided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 decided | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 deliberation | case |
| 10 | mature | mature | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deliberation | amod |
| 11 | deliberation | deliberation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 decided | obl |
| 12 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decided | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 masks | det |
| 18 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Ogres = ogre | a _ junta | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junta=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | Ogres = ogre not said here | after mature deliberation | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ogres = ogre not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | Ogres = ogre not said here | the masks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mask=Stimulus |
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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