The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 110
And the Bear and the Bluebird both answered the same thing.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: answer · To what, where: same thing
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bear | det |
| 3 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Bluebird | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bluebird | det |
| 6 | Bluebird | Bluebird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bear | conj |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Bear and the Bluebird | the same thing | both property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=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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