The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 119
In a little while they found the jealous friend in the chimney, and supposing him to be the one who had undone them, without mercy puffed him to the place where devils live.
Who acts: wagons, supposing, one, devils · What happens: find, suppose, be, undo, puff, live · To what, where: jealous friend, chimney, devil, one, friends
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 (wagons, supposing, one, devils), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 found | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 little | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 8 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chimney | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chimney | det |
| 12 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 15 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 one | csubj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 supposing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 one | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 undone | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 undone | aux |
| 23 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 undone | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 puffed | punct |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 mercy | case |
| 27 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 puffed | obl |
| 28 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 undone | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 puffed | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 puffed | obl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 live | advmod |
| 34 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 live | nsubj |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 place | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | wagons = wagon | the jealous friend | the chimney | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | |||
| 2 | suppose | gerund | devil | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | supposing | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | undo | past · perfect | the one | friends = friend | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | puff | past | devil | without mercy; to the place | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Source | ||||
| 6 | live | present | devils | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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