The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 21
“What is the matter, my daughter?” asked the old fairy, gently, “and why do you weep?”
Who acts: matter, old fairy · What happens: be, ask, weep · To what, where: matter, old fairy · 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, 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 (matter, old fairy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fairy | amod |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gently | punct |
| 16 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 weep | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 weep | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 weep | cc |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 weep | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 weep | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 weep | nsubj |
| 23 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 weep | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | What nsubj; my daughter appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the matter | the old fairy | gently property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | weep in a quote | present · do-support | the old fairy = fairy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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