The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 44
Then Agostin’s heart sank, and he thought: “Alas! what good will that drop do me?”
Who acts: heart, drop · What happens: sink, think, do · To what, where: heart · 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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, drop), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sank | advmod |
| 2 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Agostin | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sank | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Alas | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Alas | punct |
| 12 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 14 what | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Alas | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 drop | det |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | iobj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | Agostin's heart | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | heart | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | that drop | heart | what obj | 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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