The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 50
But the Squirrel-mother, knowing what was in his heart, said:
Who acts: Squirrel mother · What happens: know, be, say · To what, where: heart · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 3 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Squirrel | punct |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mother | acl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 heart | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heart | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knowing | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the Squirrel mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | _'s heart | what nsubj; _ nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Squirrel mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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