The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 23
These Ogres were larger than ordinary men, but otherwise carried no outward sign of their odious calling.
Who acts: Ogres · What happens: be, carry, sign, call · To what, where: outward sign, odious calling · 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, 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 (Ogres), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Ogres | det |
| 2 | Ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 larger | cop |
| 4 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larger | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 10 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 11 carried | advmod |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 larger | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sign | det |
| 13 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sign | amod |
| 14 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 calling | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 calling | nmod:poss |
| 17 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 calling | amod |
| 18 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sign | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Ogres | than ordinary men; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | this Ogres not said here | no outward sign of Ogres's odious calling | otherwise property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | |||
| 3 | sign | Ogres's odious calling | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | call | Ogres = ogre | nom calling «act 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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