The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 117
“Somebody must have listened to us last night,” said the old devil, greatly troubled.
Who acts: Somebody, old devil · What happens: listen, say · To what, where: us · 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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Somebody, old devil), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 listened | aux |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 listened | obl |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 night | amod |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 devil | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 devil | amod |
| 15 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 troubled | punct |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 troubled | advmod |
| 18 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | must · perfect | Somebody | us | night | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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