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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gone | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 returned | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 load | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 load | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 load | det |
| 16 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 corn | amod |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 load | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 lift | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lift | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 lift | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 lift | advmod |
| 26 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 returned | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 carried | cc |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 house | nmod:poss |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | man | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | past | man | with such load of green corn; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not lift | could | the strongest man | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | carry | past | load | stranger's house | vn 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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