The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 71
So the Badger-wife went with meal to the house of the Field-Mouse, making to be very sad; and brought him back with her.
Who acts: Badger wife · What happens: go, make, be, bring back · To what, where: house, deh
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 (Badger wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Badger | punct |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 meal | case |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mouse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mouse | det |
| 14 | Field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Mouse | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Field | punct |
| 16 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sad | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sad | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 sad | advmod |
| 22 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 making | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Badger wife | the house of the Field Mouse | with meal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Badger wife not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the Badger wife not said here | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring back | past | the Badger wife not said here | deh | with wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=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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