The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 71
For the four days of his absence had really been four years, and the people looked strange.
Who acts: four days, people, Acoma · What happens: have, be, look, absent · To what, where: four years
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 (four days, people, Acoma), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 absence | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 absence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 years | cop |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the four days of Acoma's absence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | four years | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the people | strange property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | absent | Acoma | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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