The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 18
But Big-ears did not know it, for he could not see behind.
Who acts: Big ears, noise · What happens: not know, not see · To what, where: cheese
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big ears, noise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ears | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Big ears | cheese | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | noise | behind property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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