The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 15
The good man let his servants rest on Sunday, but the bad made his work every day, and did not even give them time to smoke.
Who acts: good man, servants, bad, man · What happens: let, rest, make, not give, smoke, work · To what, where: work, servants
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 (good man, servants, bad, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 servants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rest | nsubj |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Sunday | case |
| 9 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bad | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 give | advmod |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 smoke | mark |
| 28 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 time | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the good man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rest | present | man's servants | sunday | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the bad | man's work | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product | |||
| 4 | not give | past · do-support | the good man not said here | servants = servant | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | smoke | to-infinitive | the good man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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