The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 126
“Nothing,” he answered, “except that when I was half-way down I saw in the middle of yon cottonwood forest a little mound covered with all the beautiful flowers in the world.”
Who acts: Eagle, that · What happens: answer, be, see, cover · To what, where: Nothing, way, middle, little mound · 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, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 answered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 way | nsubj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 way | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 way | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 14 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 way | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 way | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 24 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | compound |
| 25 | cottonwood | cottonwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | compound |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 middle | nmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mound | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mound | amod |
| 29 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | appos |
| 30 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 mound | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 flowers | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 flowers | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 flowers | det |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flowers | amod |
| 35 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 covered | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flowers | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 mound | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Eagle | Nothing | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | that | way | I nsubj; down, half property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Eagle | way not said here | the middle of yon cottonwood forest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | cover in a quote | participle | a little mound not said here | with all beautiful flowers in the world | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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