The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 129

It has always seemed to me that the boy who always wants to know “why?” has a better time of it among my Indian friends than anywhere else.

Who acts: story, boy · What happens: have, seem, want, know · To what, where: me

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 (story, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 seemed	advmod
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 has	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wants	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 wants	advmod
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wants	xcomp
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 know	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 wants	punct
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 time	nmod
25	among	among	ADP	_	28 friends	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friends	nmod:poss
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 friends	amod
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 time	nmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 anywhere	case
30	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 friends	advmod
31	else	else	ADV	_	30 anywhere	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	story				tree rules
2	seem	past	story not said here	me		always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	want	present	the boy			always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present	the boy		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 129

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 129