The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 54
“There is only one way,” said the young devil, “and one man could do that--but they will never think of it.
Who acts: one way, young devil, one man, Pueblos · What happens: be, say, do, not think · To what, where: that · 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 (one way, young devil, one man, Pueblos), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 way | nummod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 devil | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 devil | amod |
| 12 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nummod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 think | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 think | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 think | advmod |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 think | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | one way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could | one man | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | future | Pueblos = pueblo | of way | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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