The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 3
My little _amigos_ in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns--for they are my friends in all--are never spoiled; but neither are they punished much.
Who acts: amigos, neither · What happens: be, not spoil · To what, where: all, little _ amigos
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 (amigos, neither), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 amigos | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amigos | amod |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amigos | compound |
| 4 | amigos | amigo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Isleta | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Isleta | case |
| 7 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 amigos | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 towns | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 towns | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 towns | amod |
| 11 | Pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 towns | compound |
| 12 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Isleta | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 friends | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 friends | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 towns | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 friends | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 amigos | punct |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 spoiled | advmod |
| 24 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 spoiled | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 punished | cc |
| 27 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 punished | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 punished | cop |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 punished | nsubj |
| 30 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spoiled | conj |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 punished | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 spoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | amigos = amigo | all | for my friends; my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not spoil | present · passive | My little _ amigos in Isleta and the other Pueblo towns | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | neither | amigos = amigo nsubj; punish 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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