The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 7
While he worked so, Too-wháy-deh came along; and seeing what happened, he wished to meddle, as his way is.
Who acts: heh, wháy deh, way · What happens: work, come along, see, happen, wish, meddle · 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 Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heh, wháy deh, way), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 worked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wished | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 worked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 6 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 10 deh | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Too | punct |
| 8 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deh | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wháy | punct |
| 10 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | cc |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 worked | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seeing | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 meddle | mark |
| 22 | meddle | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 is | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 is | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 is | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meddle | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | heh | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come along | past | wháy deh | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | heh not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | heh | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | meddle not said to happen | to-infinitive | heh not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be | present | heh's way | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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