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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 18

So saying, he was gone; but very soon he returned with such a load of green corn as the strongest man could not lift, and carried it to her house.

Who acts: man, strongest man · What happens: say, be, return, not lift, carry · To what, where: load, house · 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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, strongest man), 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

advmodadvclpunctnsubjcoppunctccadvmodadvmodnsubjparataxiscasedet:predetdetoblcaseamodnmodmarkdetamodnsubjauxadvmodadvclpunctccparataxisobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootSoADVsayingVERB,PUNCThePRONwasAUXgoneADJ;PUNCTbutCCONJveryADVsoonADVhePRONreturnedVERBwithADPsuchDETaDETloadNOUNofADPgreenADJcornNOUNasSCONJtheDETstrongestADJmanNOUNcouldAUXnotPARTliftVERB,PUNCTandCCONJcarriedVERBitPRONtoADPherPRONhouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_2 sayingadvmod
2sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 goneadvcl
3,,PUNCT_2 sayingpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 gonensubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gonecop
6gonegoneADJDegree=Posrootroot
7;;PUNCT_12 returnedpunct
8butbutCCONJ_12 returnedcc
9veryveryADV_10 soonadvmod
10soonsoonADVDegree=Pos12 returnedadvmod
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 returnednsubj
12returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 goneparataxis
13withwithADP_16 loadcase
14suchsuchDETPronType=Ind16 loaddet:predet
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 loaddet
16loadloadNOUNNumber=Sing12 returnedobl
17ofofADP_19 corncase
18greengreenADJDegree=Pos19 cornamod
19corncornNOUNNumber=Sing16 loadnmod
20asasSCONJ_26 liftmark
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 mandet
22strongeststrongADJDegree=Sup23 manamod
23manmanNOUNNumber=Sing26 liftnsubj
24couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 liftaux
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 liftadvmod
26liftliftVERBVerbForm=Inf12 returnedadvcl
27,,PUNCT_29 carriedpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 carriedcc
29carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 goneparataxis
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 carriedobj
31totoADP_33 housecase
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 housenmod:poss
33househouseNOUNNumber=Sing29 carriedobl
34..PUNCT_6 gonepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertgerundman not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2ispastmangone propertytree rules
3returnpastmanwith such load of green corn; soon propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4not liftcouldthe strongest manvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5carrypastloadstranger's housevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to house=Destination

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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