The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 45
“No, he is not dead,” said the Squirrel-mother when she had looked, “but I think he is very hungry.
Who acts: _, Squirrel mother, Nana · What happens: not be, say, look, think, be · 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 (_, Squirrel mother, Nana), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 dead | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dead | advmod |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mother | det |
| 12 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Squirrel | punct |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 looked | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | aux |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 think | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hungry | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hungry | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 hungry | advmod |
| 27 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 think | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | _ | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Squirrel mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | past · perfect | Nana | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Squirrel mother = mother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | _ | hungry property | tree rules |
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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