The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 73
When Ees-tée-ah Muts entered she seemed very glad to see him, and pretended to know nothing of what had befallen him.
Who acts: Muts, wife · What happens: enter, seem, see, pretend, know, befall · To what, where: Ees tée, Acoma, nothing
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 (Muts, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tée | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ees | punct |
| 4 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | nmod:desc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 entered | punct |
| 6 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 entered | discourse |
| 7 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 entered | nsubj |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pretended | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pretended | cc |
| 18 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pretended | xcomp |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 befallen | aux |
| 25 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 befallen | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Muts | Ees tée | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | wife | glad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Acoma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pretend | past | wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | wife not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Acoma | what nsubj:pass | 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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