The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 161
It looks more like a piece of wasp’s nest than anything else, but is very good to eat.
Who acts: bread · What happens: look, be, eat
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 (bread), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 looks | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 piece | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 8 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nest | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 wasp | case |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 anything | case |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 nest | nmod |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 anything | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 good | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 good | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 good | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | bread | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | bread not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | bread not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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