The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 30
Nothing was good enough for them except human flesh--and young at that.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be · To what, where: that
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | obl |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 flesh | case |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flesh | amod |
| 9 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 young | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 young | cc |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 young | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nothing | for men = man; except human flesh; enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Nothing not said here | that | 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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