The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 40
“I wish I could run under the ground like that, for it seems very easy.
Who acts: Ai, it · What happens: wish, run, seem · To what, where: ground · 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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ai, it), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 ground | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seems | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | advcl |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 easy | advmod |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Ai | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | could | Ai | the ground like that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | it | easy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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