The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 32
When both had eaten the raw corn, every seed of it, the old folks said: “It is well!
Who acts: old folks, corn · What happens: eat, say, be · To what, where: both · 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 (old folks, corn), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corn | det |
| 6 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corn | amod |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seed | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 seed | det |
| 10 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corn | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seed | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 folks | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 folks | amod |
| 16 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 20 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 is | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect · passive | both | the raw corn obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the old folks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | corn | well 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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