The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 77
But the Moon, remembering her husband’s words, said politely that she did not wish to drink.
Who acts: Moon, husband · What happens: remember, say, not wish, drink, word · To what, where: words · 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 (Moon, husband), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembering | punct |
| 5 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Moon | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remembering | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Moon | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 drink | mark |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | the Moon not said here | Moon's husband's words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Moon | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | Moon not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | word | Moon's husband | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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