The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 56
“Is _that_ the only way?” said the old devil.
Who acts: _, old devil · What happens: be, _, say · To what, where: _, only way · 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 (_, old devil), 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 | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 _ | cop |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 _ | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 _ | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 devil | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 devil | amod |
| 14 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | _ in a quote | present | _ | the only way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the old devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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