The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 44
But of the maidens there was one who did not forgive Sun-Arrow that he would not look at her; and in her heart she thought to pay him.
Who acts: husband, chah · What happens: be, not forgive, not look, think, pay · To what, where: one, Sun Arrow, heart, husband
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 (husband, chah), 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 | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 maidens | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 forgive | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forgive | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 forgive | advmod |
| 11 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Arrow | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sun | punct |
| 14 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgive | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 look | advmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forgive | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thought | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thought | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 pay | mark |
| 30 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 thought | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pay | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not forgive | past · do-support | Sun Arrow | who nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not look | would | husband | at chah | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | chah | chah's heart | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pay | to-infinitive | chah not said here | husband | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
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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