The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 106
[113] For he was the Father of Medicine, and taught us how to cure the sick.
Who acts: liberty, 113 · What happens: be, teach, cure · To what, where: 113, us, sick
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 (liberty, 113), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 113 | punct |
| 2 | 113 | 113 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 taught | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 113 | punct |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 Father | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Father | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Father | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Father | det |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 113 | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Medicine | case |
| 10 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Father | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taught | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taught | cc |
| 13 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 taught | obj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 cure | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cure | mark |
| 17 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 taught | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sick | det |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cure | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | liberty | for the Father; of Medicine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | 113 | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | 113 not said here | the sick | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sick=Source |
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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