The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 11
In spite of this serious burden of a title, the young man was greatly admired, and had many friends.
What happens: admire, have, spite, burden · To what, where: young man, spite, many friends, serious burden, title
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admired | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 burden | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 burden | det |
| 5 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 burden | amod |
| 6 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 title | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 title | det |
| 9 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burden | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 admired | aux:pass |
| 15 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 16 admired | advmod |
| 16 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 admired | conj |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friends | amod |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past · passive | the young man | spite of this serious burden of a title | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | many friends | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||||
| 3 | spite | this serious burden of a title | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | burden | a title | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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