The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 111
The Badger trotted and pawed, and dug everywhere, but he could not find the Moon; and he came home very sad.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: trot, paw, dig, not find, come · To what, where: Moon
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 (Badger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trotted | nsubj |
| 3 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pawed | cc |
| 5 | pawed | paw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trotted | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dug | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dug | cc |
| 8 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trotted | conj |
| 9 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 dug | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dug | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Moon | det |
| 17 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trotted | conj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sad | advmod |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | the Badger | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | paw | past | the Badger not said here | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dig | participle | the Badger not said here | everywhere property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not find | could | Badger | the Moon | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Badger | home, sad property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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