The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 18
“It is not well, for so there is no sleep, and the world is very tired.
Who acts: light, world · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, world), 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 | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 well | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 well | case |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 is | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 sleep | det |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tired | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 tired | advmod |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | light | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the world | tired property | tree rules |
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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