The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 94
They brought him before the _principales_, who questioned him, saying:
Who acts: animals · What happens: bring, question, say · To what, where: T’hoo, principales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (animals), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | 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 brought | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 principales | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 principales | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 principales | punct |
| 7 | principales | principale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 questioned | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 questioned | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 questioned | nsubj |
| 11 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 questioned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 questioned | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | animals = animal | T’hoo = t'hoo | the principales | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before principale=Destination | |||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | T’hoo = t'hoo | who nsubj | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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