The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 34
“I know nothing,” replied the younger, “except what I overheard our parents saying one day.
Who acts: younger · What happens: know, reply, overhear, say · To what, where: nothing, parents · 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 (younger), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 younger | det |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 replied | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 overheard | nsubj |
| 15 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 overheard | obj |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 overheard | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the younger = young | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the younger | what obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | overhear in a quote | past | the younger = young | our parents | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the younger = young not said here | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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