The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 98
T’hoo-chée-deh agreed, and they brought him to town with honor.
Who acts: elders · What happens: agree, bring · To what, where: chée deh, T’hoo, town
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 (elders), 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 | T’hoo | T'hoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 T’hoo | punct |
| 3 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 deh | punct |
| 5 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deh | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deh | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 honor | case |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | chée deh T’hoo not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | elders = elder | T’hoo = t'hoo | town with honor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=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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