The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 29
I have never seen a child unkindly treated, a parent saucily addressed, or a playmate abused, in all my long and intimate acquaintance with the Pueblos.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: not see, treat, address, abuse, acquaint · To what, where: child, parent, long acquaintance, playmate
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | unkindly | unkindly | ADV | _ | 8 treated | advmod |
| 8 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seen | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 addressed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 parent | det |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | saucily | saucily | ADV | _ | 13 addressed | advmod |
| 13 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seen | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 playmate | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 playmate | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 playmate | det |
| 17 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 addressed | obl |
| 18 | abused | abuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 playmate | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 acquaintance | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 acquaintance | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 acquaintance | det:predet |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 acquaintance | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 intimate | cc |
| 25 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 26 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 addressed | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Pueblos | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Pueblos | det |
| 29 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 acquaintance | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | I | a child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | treat | participle | I not said here | unkindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | address | participle · passive | a parent | my long acquaintance with the Pueblos | a playmate obl; saucily property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 4 | abuse | participle | a playmate not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | acquaint | my | with the Pueblos | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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