The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 47
The young Squirrel brought the acorn-cup full of wet corn-meal, but Ees-tée-ah Muts would not take it, for he thought:
Who acts: young Squirrel, Ees tée, _ · What happens: bring, not take, think · To what, where: acorn cup, cup
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 (young Squirrel, Ees tée, _), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Squirrel | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Squirrel | amod |
| 3 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cup | det |
| 6 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cup | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 acorn | punct |
| 8 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cup | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 meal | case |
| 11 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meal | amod |
| 12 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meal | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 corn | punct |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 take | cc |
| 17 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tée | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ees | punct |
| 19 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tée | punct |
| 21 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 25 take | discourse |
| 22 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 take | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 take | advmod |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 thought | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the young Squirrel | the acorn cup | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not take | would | Ees tée | cup | Muts nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | _ | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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