The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 59
But all were not so strong as the great Toad; and fast it was swallowing him, until he was at the waist.
Who acts: all, Toad, man · What happens: not be, be, swallow · To what, where: man, waist
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 (all, Toad, man), 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 | _ | 6 strong | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 strong | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Toad | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Toad | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Toad | amod |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fast | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fast | cc |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strong | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swallowing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swallowing | aux |
| 16 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fast | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swallowing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waist | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 waist | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waist | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 waist | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 waist | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waist | det |
| 24 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | all | as the great Toad; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | all not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | swallow | past · progressive | Toad | man | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | the waist | tree rules |
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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