The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 36
Then he knew that he had been deceived, and was very angry, but pretending not to care he ordered Ees-tée-ah Muts to go home, which the frightened hunter was very glad to do.
Who acts: frog, Muts · What happens: know, deceive, be, pretend, not care, order · To what, where: frog, Ees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (frog, Muts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 deceived | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 deceived | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 deceived | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 deceived | aux:pass |
| 8 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 angry | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 angry | advmod |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 care | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 care | cc |
| 16 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 care | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 care | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 care | mark |
| 19 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ordered | nsubj |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 care | ccomp |
| 22 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ordered | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 tée | punct |
| 24 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Ees | appos |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ah | punct |
| 26 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 24 tée | appos |
| 27 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ah | vocative |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Muts | acl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 glad | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 glad | nsubj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hunter | det |
| 34 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hunter | amod |
| 35 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 glad | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 glad | cop |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 glad | advmod |
| 38 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Muts | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 do | mark |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 glad | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | frog | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | deceive | past · perfect · passive | frog | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | frog not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not care | to-infinitive | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | order | past | frog | Ees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ees=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | frog not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | past | Muts | the frightened hunter nsubj; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive | Muts not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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