The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 48
Agostin drank and drank, then ate some tortillas and drank again; and when he was satisfied, the acorn-cup was still nearly full.
Who acts: Agostin, Pedro, acorn cup · What happens: drink, eat, be · To what, where: tortillas
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 (Agostin, Pedro, acorn cup), 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 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drank | cc |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ate | advmod |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 tortillas | det |
| 9 | tortillas | tortilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ate | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drank | cc |
| 11 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 drank | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 satisfied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 satisfied | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 satisfied | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 satisfied | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 satisfied | cop |
| 18 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cup | det |
| 21 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cup | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 acorn | punct |
| 23 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 full | cop |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 full | advmod |
| 26 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 27 full | advmod |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 satisfied | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Agostin | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | Agostin not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | Agostin not said here | some tortillas | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortilla=Patient | |||
| 4 | drink | past | Agostin not said here | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Pedro | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the acorn cup | still | full, nearly 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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