The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 130
For there is always sure to be a why, and an interesting one--which is much more satisfactory than only learning that “it’s bedtime now,” or that “I’m busy.”
Who acts: interesting one, Sun · What happens: be, learn
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 (interesting one, Sun), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 sure | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 sure | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 why | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 why | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 why | det |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sure | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 satisfactory | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 satisfactory | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfactory | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 satisfactory | advmod |
| 20 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | conj |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 learning | mark |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 learning | advmod |
| 23 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 satisfactory | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 ’s | mark |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’s | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ’s | nsubj |
| 27 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfactory | advcl |
| 28 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ’s | obj |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 ’s | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 ’m | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 ’m | mark |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 ’m | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 ’m | nsubj |
| 36 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | conj |
| 37 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ’m | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | there | a interesting one ccomp; always, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a interesting one | satisfactory property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | gerund | a interesting one not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | Sun and Arrow = sun | busy property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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