The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 91
I have never heard a more eloquent story-teller, and I have heard some famous ones.
Who acts: I · What happens: not hear, hear · To what, where: eloquent story teller, famous ones
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), 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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teller | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 eloquent | advmod |
| 7 | eloquent | eloquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teller | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teller | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 10 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 ones | det |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ones | amod |
| 18 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · perfect | I | a eloquent story teller | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teller=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | I | some famous ones | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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