The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 86
When he came into the pueblo, all the famishing people came out to welcome him.
Who acts: rain, famishing people · What happens: come, famish, come out, welcome · To what, where: pueblo, rain
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, famishing people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pueblo | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pueblo | det |
| 6 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | famishing | famish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 welcome | mark |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 welcome | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | rain | the pueblo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pueblo=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | famish | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come out | past | all famishing people | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | welcome | to-infinitive | all famishing people not said here | rain | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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