The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 20

“Thank you,” answered the other coldly, as one who will not; but he did not accept.

Who acts: Kahp · What happens: thank, answer, not accept · To what, where: you, other · 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 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 (Kahp), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answered	obj
9	coldly	coldly	ADV	_	6 answered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 answered	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 will	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 will	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 accept	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 accept	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 accept	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 accept	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 accept	advmod
21	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Thank	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past		the other		one ccomp; coldly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
3	not accept	past · do-support	Kahp				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 20