The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 10
Grandfather Lorenso bows his head gravely, but seems in no haste.
Who acts: Grandfather · What happens: bow, seem · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandfather), 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 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bows | nsubj |
| 2 | Lorenso | Lorenso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Grandfather | appos |
| 3 | bows | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bows | obj |
| 6 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 3 bows | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seems | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 seems | cc |
| 9 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bows | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 haste | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 haste | det |
| 12 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seems | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | present | Grandfather | Grandfather's head | gravely property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 2 | seem | present | Grandfather not said here | in no haste | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in haste=Attribute |
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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