The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 18
It was more than one could shell in a year; and when her husband went out, she sat down again to cry and bemoan her fate.
Who acts: corn, husband, door · What happens: be, go out, sit down, cry, bemoan, fate · To what, where: fate
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, husband, door), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 shell | case |
| 5 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shell | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shell | aux |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shell | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 went | advmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cry | mark |
| 24 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sat | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bemoan | cc |
| 26 | bemoan | bemoan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cry | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fate | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bemoan | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | corn | than shell one in a year; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | door's husband | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | door | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | door not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bemoan | infinitive | door not said here | door's fate | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fate | door | nom fate «event 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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