The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 4
A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would have thought it a very savage one, with its frame of long, jet hair, its piercing eyes, and the broad streak of red paint across its cheeks.
Who acts: stern face, I · What happens: seem, think · To what, where: me, face
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 (stern face, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 face | det |
| 2 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 face | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stern | conj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 manly | cc |
| 6 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stern | conj |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seems | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seems | nsubj |
| 9 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seems | obl |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 seems | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 15 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 thought | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | aux |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seems | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 savage | advmod |
| 23 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 frame | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 frame | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 frame | nmod:poss |
| 28 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 long | case |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 frame | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hair | punct |
| 32 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hair | compound |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 frame | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eyes | punct |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyes | compound |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hair | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 streak | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 streak | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 streak | det |
| 41 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 streak | amod |
| 42 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 paint | case |
| 44 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 paint | amod |
| 45 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 streak | nmod |
| 46 | across | across | ADP | _ | 48 cheeks | case |
| 47 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 48 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 streak | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | a stern face | me | now | it nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | would · perfect | I | face | with face's frame of long and jet hair and face's piercing eyes; a savage one obj; the broad streak of red paint across face's cheeks conj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme one=Attribute |
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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