The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 10
“_Si, señor_,” said he,--for Vitorino knows no English, and most of our talk was in Spanish, which is easier to me than the Tée-wahn language,--“that was very long ago, and now all is changed.
Who acts: Si, most, Spanish, that, our · What happens: say, know, be, change, talk · To what, where: English, Spanish, me, all · 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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Si, most, Spanish, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 señor | punct |
| 5 | señor | señor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Si | conj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 knows | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Vitorino | case |
| 14 | Vitorino | Vitorino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knows | obl |
| 15 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 English | det |
| 17 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knows | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Spanish | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Spanish | cc |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 Spanish | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 talk | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 talk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 most | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Spanish | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Spanish | case |
| 26 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knows | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 easier | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 easier | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 easier | cop |
| 30 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 Spanish | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 easier | obl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 language | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 language | det |
| 35 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 language | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tée | punct |
| 37 | wahn | wahn | X | _ | 38 language | compound |
| 38 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 easier | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ago | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 ago | punct |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 ago | punct |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 ago | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 ago | cop |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 long | advmod |
| 45 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 ago | advmod |
| 46 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 38 language | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 changed | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 changed | cc |
| 49 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 changed | advmod |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 changed | aux:pass |
| 52 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 ago | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Si and señor | DON nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | present | Si and señor not said here | no English | for Vitorino | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer english=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | most of our talk | Spanish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Spanish | me | than the Tée wahn language; easy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | that | ago, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | change in a quote | present · passive | all | now | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | talk | our | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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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