The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 121
“Is that so?” we responded; and Lorenso replied, “That is so,” gathering his blanket and rising to go without “putting a tail” to any one, for it was already late.
Who acts: that, we, Lorenso, tail · What happens: be, respond, reply, gather, rise, go · To what, where: blanket, tail, one · 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 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 (that, we, Lorenso, tail), 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 | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 so | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 so | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 responded | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 responded | nsubj |
| 8 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 replied | cc |
| 11 | Lorenso | Lorenso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 responded | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 so | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 so | punct |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 so | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 so | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 replied | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gathering | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 gathering | punct |
| 20 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 so | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 22 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gathering | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rising | cc |
| 24 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 gathering | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rising | xcomp |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 putting | mark |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 putting | punct |
| 29 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 go | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tail | det |
| 31 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 putting | obj |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 putting | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 putting | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 late | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 late | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 late | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 late | cop |
| 40 | already | already | ADV | _ | 41 late | advmod |
| 41 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 go | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | we | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Lorenso | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | That | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gather | gerund | That not said here | Lorenso's blanket | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rise | gerund | That not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | put in a quote | gerund | That not said here | a tail | any one | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tail=Goal | |||
| 9 | is | past | tail | late 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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