The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 3
That may seem a queer sentence to rouse one so sharply; and especially when you know what it means.
Who acts: That, you, sentence · What happens: seem, rouse, know, mean · To what, where: queer sentence, 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, you, sentence), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seem | aux |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sentence | det |
| 5 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sentence | compound |
| 6 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rouse | mark |
| 8 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 rouse | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 sharply | advmod |
| 11 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 8 rouse | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 know | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seem | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 means | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | may | That | a queer sentence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rouse | to-infinitive | That not said here | one | sharply property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | especially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | sentence | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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