The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 19
And now, taking a deep puff, Lorenso exclaims:
Who acts: Lorenso · What happens: take, exclaim · To what, where: deep puff
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 (Lorenso), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 taking | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puff | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 puff | amod |
| 7 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaims | punct |
| 9 | Lorenso | Lorenso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaims | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaims | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taking | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a deep puff | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | present | Lorenso | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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