The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 49
So I stuck a big stone in the spring and stopped all the water; and ever since, the water will not come out, and the people work in vain, and they are dying of thirst, and all their stock.
Who acts: I, water, people · What happens: stick, stop, not come out, work, die, stock · To what, where: big stone, water
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 (I, water, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stuck | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spring | det |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 water | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 since | advmod |
| 18 | since | since | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 since | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stuck | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 work | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 work | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 work | nsubj |
| 30 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 vain | case |
| 32 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 work | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dying | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dying | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 dying | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dying | aux |
| 37 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stuck | advcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 thirst | case |
| 39 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dying | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 stock | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 stock | cc |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 stock | det:predet |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 stock | nmod:poss |
| 44 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | I | a big stone | spring | people's stock parataxis | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||
| 2 | stop | past | I not said here | all water | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality water=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not come out | future | the water | ever | out, since property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | work | present | the people | in vain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | present · progressive | people | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer | ||||
| 6 | stock | people | nom stock «possession transitive»: 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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