The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 38
But Big-ears would not listen to her, and brought the thief to his master.
Who acts: Big ears · What happens: not listen, bring · To what, where: Coyote, thief, master
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), 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 listen | cc |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ears | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 listen | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 listen | advmod |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 listen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thief | det |
| 14 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | Big ears | Coyote | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Big ears not said here | the thief | Nana's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thief=Theme to master=Destination |
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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