The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 111
The boy looked at the three girls; and truly the eldest were very lovely.
Who acts: boy, the · What happens: look, be
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 (boy, the), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 girls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girls | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girls | nummod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lovely | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lovely | cc |
| 10 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 15 lovely | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lovely | nsubj |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 the | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lovely | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 lovely | advmod |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the boy | at the three girls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the eldest | lovely, truly property | 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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