The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 15
For him the shyest dimples played, for him the whitest teeth flashed out, as the owners passed him in the plaza; but he had no eyes for them.
Who acts: shyest dimples, owners, Moqui · What happens: play, flash out, pass, have · To what, where: whitest teeth, Moqui, plaza, eyes
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 (shyest dimples, owners, Moqui), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 played | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dimples | det |
| 4 | shyest | shy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 dimples | amod |
| 5 | dimples | dimple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | nsubj |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 him | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 played | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teeth | det |
| 11 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obj |
| 13 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 teeth | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 flashed | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 passed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 owners | det |
| 18 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 plaza | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plaza | det |
| 23 | plaza | plaza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 eyes | det |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the shyest dimples | the whitest teeth | for Moqui; for Moqui | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme for he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | flash out | participle | the whitest teeth not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | past | the owners | Moqui | the plaza | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in plaza=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | past | Moqui | no eyes | for owners = owner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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