The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 55
Then the young Squirrel took the cup and brought it full of water, and though he was very thirsty he could not drain it.
Who acts: young Squirrel, Ees · What happens: take, bring, be, not drain · To what, where: 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), 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 | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Squirrel | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Squirrel | amod |
| 4 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cup | det |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brought | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drain | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drain | cc |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 thirsty | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thirsty | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thirsty | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 thirsty | advmod |
| 20 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 drain | advcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drain | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drain | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 drain | advmod |
| 24 | drain | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drain | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the young Squirrel | the cup | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | the young Squirrel not said here | cup | full property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Ees | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not drain | could | Ees | cup | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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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