The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 14
But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so thought little about girls anyhow, caring more to run fastest in the races and to kill the most game in the hunts.
Who acts: Poo · What happens: not find out, be, think, care, run, kill · To what, where: little girls, more, races, most game, hunts
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 (Poo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 found | advmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 found | advmod |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 found | compound:prt |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 handsome | advmod |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | xcomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 handsome | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 handsome | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 thought | advmod |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girls | amod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 girls | case |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thought | obj |
| 19 | anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 18 girls | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caring | punct |
| 21 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 thought | advcl |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 caring | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 caring | xcomp |
| 25 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 run | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 races | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 races | det |
| 28 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 run | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kill | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 run | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 game | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 game | amod |
| 34 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kill | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 hunts | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hunts | det |
| 37 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kill | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find out | past · perfect | Poo | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Poo | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | little girls | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme | |||||
| 4 | care | gerund | more | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | the races | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | kill | to-infinitive | the most game | the hunts | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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