The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 105
But with all his eyes, he could see nothing of the lost wife; and at last he came back sadly, and said:
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: see, lose, come back, say · To what, where: nothing, last · 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, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 eyes | det:predet |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 last | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 last | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 last | acl:relcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | advcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Eagle | nothing of the lost wife | last | with Eagle's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come back | past | Eagle | sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Eagle not said here | 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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