The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 1
A DISOBEDIENT child is something I have never seen among the Pueblos, in all the years I have lived with them.
Who acts: DISOBEDIENT child, I · What happens: be, not see, live · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DISOBEDIENT child, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | DISOBEDIENT | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 something | cop |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 Pueblos | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pueblos | det |
| 12 | Pueblos | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 years | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 years | det |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | aux |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a DISOBEDIENT child | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect | I | among the Pueblos | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | I | year | with Pueblos = pueblo | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
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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