The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 40
That was the first time in the world that any one betrayed a friend, and from that deed comes all the treachery that is.
Who acts: That, one, treachery · What happens: be, betray, come · To what, where: first time, world, friend, treachery, deed
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 (That, one, treachery), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 betrayed | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 betrayed | nsubj |
| 12 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 betrayed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 comes | cc |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 deed | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 deed | det |
| 19 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | obl |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 treachery | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 treachery | det |
| 23 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 is | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 treachery | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the first time | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | betray | past | any one | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | That not said here | all treachery | that deed | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treachery=Theme | |||
| 4 | does | present | all treachery | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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