The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 20
“There lacks one,” he said; “for thy master said he would send _so_ many.
Who acts: noise · What happens: lack, say, send · To what, where: one · 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, 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lacks | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lacks | expl |
| 3 | lacks | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lacks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lacks | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lacks | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 many | punct |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 send | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lack in a quote | present | one | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | noise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | noise not said here | for thy master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | would | noise | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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