The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 5
She was a very beautiful girl and her hunter-husband was very fond of her.
Who acts: squirrel, hunter husband · What happens: be · To what, where: beautiful girl
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, hunter 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fond | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 husband | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunter | punct |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fond | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fond | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 fond | advmod |
| 14 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fond | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | squirrel | a beautiful girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | squirrel's hunter husband | of squirrel; fond 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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