The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 100
Such a strange animal, once heard of, would be very sure to figure in some story.
Who acts: strange animal · What happens: hear, be, figure · To what, where: strange animal, story
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange animal), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 animal | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 animal | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 animal | punct |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 sure | advmod |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 figure | mark |
| 15 | figure | figure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 figure | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | participle | such strange animal not said here | once property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | would | such strange animal | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | figure | to-infinitive | such strange animal not said here | some story | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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