The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 47
The two sisters were in a fine rage by this time, and mocked her, saying:
Who acts: two sisters · What happens: be, mock, say · To what, where: fine rage, Moon · 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 (two sisters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rage | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rage | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rage | amod |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rage | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mocked | cc |
| 14 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rage | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mocked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mocked | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two sisters | a fine rage | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mock | past | Moon | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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