The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 2
The words seemed to remind him of something; for he turned to his fat grandson, and said:
Who acts: words, Lorenso · What happens: seem, remind, turn, say · To what, where: Lorenso, fat grandson · 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 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 (words, Lorenso), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remind | mark |
| 5 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remind | iobj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 remind | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 turned | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grandson | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grandson | amod |
| 16 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the words | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | the words not said here | Lorenso | of something | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of something=Topic | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Lorenso | Lorenso's fat grandson | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to grandson=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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