The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 28
All the next day, and the next, and the next, they ground it over and over again, until it grew finer than ever flour was before; and every girl felt sure that her meal would stick to the _omate_ of the handsome young weaver.
Who acts: kernels, corn, flour, girl, meal · What happens: ground over, grow, be, feel, stick
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 (kernels, corn, flour, girl), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 next | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 next | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 next | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 next | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 next | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 next | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 next | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ground | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ground | nsubj |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 over | nsubj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 ground | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 over | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 grew | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 grew | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 before | mark |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 flour | advmod |
| 28 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 before | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 before | cop |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 finer | advcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 felt | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 felt | cc |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 girl | det |
| 34 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 felt | nsubj |
| 35 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grew | conj |
| 36 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 felt | xcomp |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 stick | mark |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 meal | nmod:poss |
| 39 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stick | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 stick | aux |
| 41 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 felt | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 _ | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 _ | det |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 _ | punct |
| 45 | omate | omate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 _ | amod |
| 46 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 stick | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 weaver | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 weaver | det |
| 49 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 weaver | amod |
| 50 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 weaver | amod |
| 51 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 _ | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground over | kernels = kernel | again | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | corn | day | fine property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | flour | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | every girl | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stick | would | crier's meal | to the omate _ of the handsome young weaver | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to _=Co-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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