The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 30
But he saw none of them, except the youngest daughter of the Cacique; for he loved her.
Who acts: ah · What happens: see, love · To what, where: none, war
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 (ah), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 none | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 daughter | amod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cacique | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cacique | det |
| 14 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 loved | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loved | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ah | none of maidens | the youngest daughter of the Cacique conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | love | past | ah | war | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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