The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 154
As for the false friend, he died of shame in his house, not daring to come out; and no one wept for him.
Who acts: Shee, one · What happens: die, not dare, not come out, weep
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 (Shee, one), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 friend | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shame | case |
| 10 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shame | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daring | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 daring | advmod |
| 16 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 died | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 daring | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wept | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wept | nsubj |
| 24 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Shee | as the false friend; of shame in Shee's house | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of shame=Causer | ||||
| 2 | not dare | gerund | Shee not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not come out | to-infinitive | Shee not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | no one | for Shee | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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