The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 53
They look something like a huge flapjack, but are very tough and keep a long time.
Who acts: stone · What happens: look, be, keep · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 look | obj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 flapjack | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flapjack | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flapjack | amod |
| 7 | flapjack | flapjack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 something | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tough | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tough | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tough | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 tough | advmod |
| 12 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tough | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | stone | something | like a huge flapjack | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | tough property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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