The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 57
Then the Old-Woman-Mole was full of joy; and having learned his errand, she said:
Who acts: Old Woman Mole, Mole · What happens: be, have, learn, say · To what, where: errand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Old Woman Mole, Mole), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 full | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mole | det |
| 3 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mole | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Old | punct |
| 5 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mole | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Woman | punct |
| 7 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 learned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learned | cc |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 learned | nsubj |
| 15 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 errand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learned | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learned | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Old Woman Mole | then | of joy; full property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | learn | past | boy's errand | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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