The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 32
Presently they met a third man, and asked him the same, and he answered the same; for it was the same old devil in another body.
Who acts: natures, man, voice · What happens: meet, ask, answer, be · To what, where: third man, same, man, body
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 (natures, man, voice), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answered | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 devil | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 devil | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 devil | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 devil | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 devil | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 devil | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 devil | amod |
| 26 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 body | case |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 body | det |
| 29 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 devil | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | natures = nature | a third man | presently property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | natures = nature not said here | the same | man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | man | the same | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | voice | another body | for the same old devil | 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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