The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 101
They set him down at the door of his own house under the chapparo.
Who acts: herbs · What happens: set down · To what, where: T’hoo, door
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herbs), 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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 chapparo | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chapparo | det |
| 14 | chapparo | chapparo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past | herbs = herb | T’hoo = t'hoo | the door of T’hoo's own house under the chapparo | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at door=Destination |
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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