The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 135
(Seeking her, seeking her!
What happens: seek · 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: 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 Seeking | punct |
| 2 | Seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Seeking | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeking | punct |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Seeking | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seeking | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | Moon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | Moon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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