The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 61
In the pueblo across the mountain I have the daughter of the wealthiest man sick in bed, and she will never get well.
Who acts: I, stone · What happens: have, not get · To what, where: daughter, pueblo
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, stone), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pueblo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pueblo | det |
| 3 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pueblo | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wealthiest | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sick | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 get | advmod |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | conj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | the daughter of the wealthiest man | the pueblo across the mountain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | not get | future | stone | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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