The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 99
At the third saying the people heard on all sides the _guajes_ of the Trues.
Who acts: third · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: people, sides · 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 (third), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 third | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 third | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saying | obj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sides | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sides | det |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guajes | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 guajes | punct |
| 13 | guajes | guaje | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sides | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Trues | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Trues | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Trues | det |
| 17 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 guajes | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the third not said here | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the third | all sides the guajes and the Trues | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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