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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

punctpunctnsubjpunctconjpunctpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctcaseoblconjdetobjpunctccnsubjcasenmod:possnmodcopcaseconjpunctnsubjcopconjcaseoblcasedetcompoundpunctcompoundoblpunctpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodadvmodadvmodpunctccadvmodnsubj:passaux:passconjpunctroot“PUNCT_PUNCTSiPROPN,PUNCTseñorNOUN_PUNCT,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBhePRON,PUNCT--PUNCTforADPVitorinoPROPNknowsVERBnoDETEnglishADJ,PUNCTandCCONJmostADJofADPourPRONtalkNOUNwasAUXinADPSpanishPROPN,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXeasierADJtoADPmePRONthanADPtheDETTéePROPN-PUNCTwahnXlanguageNOUN,PUNCT--PUNCT“PUNCTthatPRONwasAUXveryADVlongADVagoADV,PUNCTandCCONJnowADVallDETisAUXchangedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_9 saidpunct
2__PUNCT_3 Sipunct
3SiSiPROPNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
4,,PUNCT_5 señorpunct
5señorseñorNOUNNumber=Sing3 Siconj
6__PUNCT_3 Sipunct
7,,PUNCT_3 Sipunct
8”"PUNCT_3 Sipunct
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 saidnsubj
11,,PUNCT_9 saidpunct
12----PUNCT_15 knowspunct
13forforADP_14 Vitorinocase
14VitorinoVitorinoPROPNNumber=Sing15 knowsobl
15knowsknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 saidconj
16nonoDETPronType=Neg17 Englishdet
17EnglishEnglishADJDegree=Pos15 knowsobj
18,,PUNCT_26 Spanishpunct
19andandCCONJ_26 Spanishcc
20mostmostADJDegree=Sup26 Spanishnsubj
21ofofADP_23 talkcase
22ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 talknmod:poss
23talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing20 mostnmod
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 Spanishcop
25ininADP_26 Spanishcase
26SpanishSpanishPROPNNumber=Sing15 knowsconj
27,,PUNCT_30 easierpunct
28whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 easiernsubj
29isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 easiercop
30easiereasyADJDegree=Cmp26 Spanishconj
31totoADP_32 mecase
32meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 easierobl
33thanthanADP_38 languagecase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 languagedet
35TéeTéePROPNNumber=Sing38 languagecompound
36--PUNCT_35 Téepunct
37wahnwahnX_38 languagecompound
38languagelanguageNOUNNumber=Sing30 easierobl
39,,PUNCT_46 agopunct
40----PUNCT_46 agopunct
41“"PUNCT_46 agopunct
42thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem46 agonsubj
43wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin46 agocop
44veryveryADV_45 longadvmod
45longlongADVDegree=Pos46 agoadvmod
46agoagoADV_38 languageadvmod
47,,PUNCT_52 changedpunct
48andandCCONJ_52 changedcc
49nownowADVPronType=Dem52 changedadvmod
50allallDETPronType=Tot52 changednsubj:pass
51isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin52 changedaux:pass
52changedchangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass46 agoconj
53..PUNCT_9 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastSi and señorDON nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2knowpresentSi and señor not said hereno Englishfor Vitorinovn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer english=Stimulus
3ispastmost of our talkSpanishtree rules
4ispresentSpanishmethan the Tée wahn language; easy propertytree rules
5is in a quotepastthatago, long propertytree rules
6change in a quotepresent · passiveallnowvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7talkournom 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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