The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 16
His wife was quiet, but he could feel that she was watching him.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: be, feel, watch · To what, where: husband
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 feel | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quiet | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 watching | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watching | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 watching | aux |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feel | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watching | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | husband's wife | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | could | husband | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | wife | husband | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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