The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 60
But whenever one of them was asked with the sacred corn-meal[112] to come and cure a sick one, he always came first to get the Father, the Field-Mouse, to accompany and help him.
Who acts: one, man · What happens: ask, come, cure, get, accompany, help · To what, where: one, sick one, Father, man
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 (one, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 7 asked | mark |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 meal | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meal | det |
| 10 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meal | amod |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meal | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 corn | punct |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 112 | punct |
| 15 | 112 | 112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 meal | appos |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 112 | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cure | cc |
| 20 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cure | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 came | advmod |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 came | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 came | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Father | det |
| 32 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 get | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Mouse | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Mouse | det |
| 35 | Field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Mouse | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Field | punct |
| 37 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Father | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 accompany | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 accompany | mark |
| 40 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 get | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 help | cc |
| 42 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 accompany | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 help | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | one of people | with the sacred corn meal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of people not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cure | infinitive | one of people not said here | a sick one | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer one=Source | ||||
| 4 | come | past | man | always, first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | man not said here | the Father | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | accompany | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | help | infinitive | man not said here | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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