The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 56
Three times the little bird repeated his words, and three times Agostin made the same answer.
Who acts: Agostin, friend · What happens: repeat, make, word · To what, where: Three times, same answer
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, friend), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 repeated | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 answer | amod |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle · passive | Three times | the little bird nsubj:pass; friend's words obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Agostin | the same answer | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | |||
| 3 | word | friend | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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