The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 16
But he paid no attention to them whatever, except to be polite; and even when they sent him the modest little gift which means “there is a young lady who loves you!” he was as provokingly indifferent as ever.
Who acts: Poo, sisters, modest little gift, young lady · What happens: pay, be, send, mean, love · To what, where: attention, sisters, modest little gift, Poo, you · 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 (Poo, sisters, modest little gift, young lady), 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 | _ | 3 paid | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 attention | det |
| 5 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | obl |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 paid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 polite | punct |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 polite | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 polite | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 polite | cop |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 sent | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gift | det |
| 22 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gift | amod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gift | amod |
| 24 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 means | nsubj |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gift | acl:relcl |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 is | punct |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 lady | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lady | amod |
| 32 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 loves | nsubj |
| 34 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 lady | acl:relcl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 loves | obj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 loves | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 loves | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 indifferent | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 indifferent | cop |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 indifferent | mark |
| 41 | provokingly | provokingly | ADV | _ | 42 indifferent | advmod |
| 42 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 loves | parataxis |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 ever | case |
| 44 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 indifferent | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Poo | no attention | sisters = sister | whatever obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent attention=Recipient whatever=Asset | ||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | send | past | sisters = sister | the modest little gift | Poo | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination gift=Theme | |||
| 4 | mean | present | the modest little gift | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | a young lady | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | a young lady | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Poo | indifferent, provokingly property | tree rules |
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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