The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 12
At last he said: “Friend, tell me, why is it that you always make more success than I?”
Who acts: man, latter · What happens: say, friend, tell, be · To what, where: last, man · 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 (man, latter), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friend | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friend | punct |
| 7 | Friend | friend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Friend | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 make | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 make | advmod |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Friend | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 success | amod |
| 20 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 I | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 success | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friend | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | man | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | friend in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | latter | you nsubj; more success obj; always, make property | tree rules |
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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