The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 29
For a long time Ees-tée-ah Muts watched them, but at last one caught sight of his face peering in at the hole.
Who acts: Muts, face · What happens: watch, catch, peer, sight · To what, where: Ees, Ees tée, face
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 (Muts, face), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tée | obl |
| 5 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tée | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ees | punct |
| 7 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 watched | punct |
| 9 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 11 watched | discourse |
| 10 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tée | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sight | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sight | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sight | amod |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 23 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 face | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 peering | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 hole | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tée | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Muts | Ees = ee | caught sight at last one of man's face obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | peer | gerund | man's face not said here | at the hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hole=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | man's face | at last one | nom sight «cognition transitive»: at=obl of=patient |
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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