The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 49
So we never bit it, but cooked it over and over and drank the broth.
Who acts: we · What happens: not bite, cook over, drink · To what, where: bird, broth
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 (we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 bit | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 bit | advmod |
| 4 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cooked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 cooked | cc |
| 8 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bit | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cooked | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 cooked | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 over | cc |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 over | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drank | cc |
| 14 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cooked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 broth | det |
| 16 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drank | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | past | we | bird | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cook over | past | we not said here | bird | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | we not said here | the broth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broth=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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