The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 2
And as he spoke he stretched out near me, looking up into my face to see if I were going to be interested.
Who acts: I · What happens: stretch out, look up, see, go, be
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stretched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | aux:pass |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | obj |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stretched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stretched | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looking | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 looking | advcl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 interested | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 interested | cop |
| 24 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 going | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past · passive | near me | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | into my face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | interested property | 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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