The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 12
Probably they called him something else “for short,” or people wouldn’t have had time to associate with him.
Who acts: friends, people · What happens: call, not have, associate · To what, where: Man · 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 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: who acts (friends, people), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 something | advmod |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 short | case |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 called | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | aux |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 short | conj |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 associate | mark |
| 20 | associate | associate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 associate | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | friends = friend | Man | something xcomp; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not have | would · perfect | people | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | associate | to-infinitive | people not said here | with Man | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with he=Co-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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