The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 11
First the hole was big, but then it grew small, and he had to dig.
Who acts: hole, crowd · What happens: be, grow, have, dig
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Feathered Barbers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, crowd), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 big | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hole | det |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 grew | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | conj |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 dig | mark |
| 17 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hole | big, first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | hole | then | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | crowd | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dig | to-infinitive | crowd not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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