The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 73
“I see,” thought Good to himself, “that these devils told the truth about one thing, and so perhaps they did about all.
Who acts: I, devils, things · What happens: see, think, tell, do · To what, where: truth, all · 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 (I, devils, things), 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 | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 Good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 devils | det |
| 14 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 thing | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thing | nummod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 perhaps | advmod |
| 24 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | conj |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 all | advmod |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 did | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | good property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | this devils | the truth | about one thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about thing=Topic | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | things = thing | all | perhaps property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
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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