The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 85
“Why, isn’t she at home?” asked the wicked sisters as if in great surprise.
Who acts: wife · What happens: not ask · To what, where: wicked sisters
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 (wife), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 n’t | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 n’t | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 asked | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 she | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 she | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 she | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sisters | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sisters | amod |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 surprise | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 surprise | mark |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 surprise | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 surprise | amod |
| 19 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | past | wife | the wicked sisters | as great surprise | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient |
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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