The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 112
Then they asked the Osprey, who can see farthest under water, and he sailed high above all the lakes and rivers in the world, till he could count the pebbles and the fish in them, but he too failed to discover the lost Moon.
Who acts: Trues, Badger · What happens: ask, see, sail, count, fail, not discover · To what, where: Osprey, farthest, lakes, pebbles, lost 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 (Trues, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Osprey | det |
| 5 | Osprey | Osprey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 10 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 farthest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sailed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sailed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sailed | nsubj |
| 16 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 17 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sailed | advmod |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 lakes | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 lakes | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lakes | det |
| 21 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sailed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rivers | cc |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lakes | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sailed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 count | punct |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 count | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 count | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 count | aux |
| 31 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sailed | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pebbles | det |
| 33 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 count | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fish | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fish | det |
| 36 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 pebbles | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 count | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 failed | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 failed | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 failed | nsubj |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 failed | advmod |
| 43 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 discover | mark |
| 45 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 failed | xcomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Moon | det |
| 47 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 Moon | amod |
| 48 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 discover | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Trues = true | the Osprey | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent osprey=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | can | farthest under water | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer far=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | Badger | all lakes and rivers | in the world; high property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | count | could | Badger | the pebbles and the fish | in Trues = true | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme | |||
| 5 | fail | past | Badger | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not discover | to-infinitive | Badger not said here | the lost Moon | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Topic | ||||
| 7 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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