The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 84
But it was not very long till Shée-wo-nah, the Storm-King, had occasion to use the lightning; and when he looked in the room where he was wont to keep it, and found it gone, his wrath knew no bounds.
Who acts: West, Shée, King, wrath · What happens: not be, have, use, look, be, keep · To what, where: occasion, lightning, West, bounds
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West, Shée, King, wrath), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 long | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 long | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 8 | Shée | Shée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shée | punct |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 nah | aux |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 nah | punct |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 19 had | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nah | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 15 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 King | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Storm | punct |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 King | punct |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | advcl |
| 20 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 use | mark |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 occasion | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lightning | det |
| 24 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 looked | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 room | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 room | det |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looked | obl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 wont | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wont | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 wont | cop |
| 36 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 room | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 keep | mark |
| 38 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wont | xcomp |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 keep | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 found | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 found | cc |
| 42 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 looked | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 found | obj |
| 44 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 found | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 knew | punct |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 47 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 knew | nsubj |
| 48 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 found | parataxis |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 bounds | det |
| 50 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 knew | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | West | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Shée | occasion | the Storm King nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | |||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | Shée not said here | the lightning | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | past | King | in the room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | King | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | King not said here | West | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | King not said here | West | gone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 8 | know | past | King's wrath | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |
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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