The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 97
“_In-dah_,” said the crone; “for all the medicine men have tried vainly, and how shall you?”
Who acts: dah · What happens: say, try · To what, where: crone · 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 (dah), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 dah | punct |
| 3 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 dah | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 In | punct |
| 5 | dah | dah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 dah | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dah | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dah | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crone | det |
| 11 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 men | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 17 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | compound |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tried | obl |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | aux |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 20 tried | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shall | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shall | cc |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 shall | advmod |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 shall | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | dah | the crone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | present · perfect | dah not said here | for all medicine men; vainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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