The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 142
“But we have looked and looked, and turned over everything to try to find one grain.”
Who acts: we · What happens: look, turn over, try, find · To what, where: everything, one grain
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | aux |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turned | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 grain | nummod |
| 18 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · perfect | we | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | we not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | turn over in a quote | past | we not said here | everything | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | find not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | one grain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic |
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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