The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 2
He is very small,--not more than half the weight of a smallish mule,--but very strong, very sure-footed, and very reliable.
Who acts: donkey · What happens: be, not be
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 (donkey), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 more | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 more | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 small | conj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 weight | case |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 weight | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weight | det |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 more | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mule | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mule | det |
| 15 | smallish | smallish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mule | amod |
| 16 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weight | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weight | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sure | advmod |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | parataxis |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 footed | punct |
| 26 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sure | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reliable | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reliable | cc |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 reliable | advmod |
| 30 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | donkey | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | donkey not said here | than half weight of a smallish mule | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | donkey not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | donkey not said here | tree rules |
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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