The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 59
_” (Is that so?) we all exclaimed--that being the proper response whenever the narrator pauses a moment.
Who acts: that, we, narrator · What happens: be, exclaim, pause · To what, where: proper response
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, narrator), 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 | _ | 6 so | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 so | punct |
| 4 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 so | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 so | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 exclaimed | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 so | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 so | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 exclaimed | advmod |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 response | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 response | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 response | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 response | det |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 response | amod |
| 17 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 18 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 21 pauses | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 narrator | det |
| 20 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pauses | nsubj |
| 21 | pauses | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 response | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pauses | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | 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 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | we | all property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | gerund | the proper response | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pause in a quote | present | the narrator | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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