The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 28
One could easily whip five common men in a bunch--“men even as strong as my son, Francisco,” says Desiderio; and Francisco is as stout as a horse.
Who acts: One, Desiderio, Francisco · What happens: whip, say, be · To what, where: five common men, bunch · 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 (One, Desiderio, Francisco), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whip | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 whip | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 whip | advmod |
| 4 | whip | whip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whip | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bunch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bunch | det |
| 10 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | appos |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strong | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Francisco | punct |
| 21 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 says | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 says | punct |
| 24 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whip | parataxis |
| 25 | Desiderio | Desiderio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 says | nsubj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stout | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stout | cc |
| 28 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 stout | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stout | cop |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 stout | advmod |
| 31 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 whip | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 horse | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stout | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip | could | One | five common men | a bunch | easily property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Patient in bunch=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Desiderio | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Francisco | as a horse; stout property | tree rules |
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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