The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 98
“But I can,” he insisted; and at last the old woman went to the rich man, and said there was a stranger at her house who was sure he could cure the girl.
Who acts: dah, last, stranger, house · What happens: insist, go, say, be, cure · To what, where: girl · 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, last, stranger, house), 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 | _ | 8 insisted | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 can | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 can | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 insisted | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 insisted | nsubj |
| 8 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 went | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 insisted | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stranger | det |
| 27 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stranger | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 sure | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sure | cop |
| 33 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 house | amod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cure | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 cure | aux |
| 36 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sure | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 girl | det |
| 38 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cure | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | dah | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past | last the old woman | to the rich man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | last the old woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a stranger at stranger's house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | stranger's house | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cure | could | dah | the girl | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer girl=Source |
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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