The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 4
[103] Personal acquaintance with a spanking is what very few of them have.
Who acts: 103 Personal acquaintance · What happens: be
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 (103 Personal acquaintance), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 103 | punct |
| 2 | 103 | 103 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 acquaintance | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 103 | punct |
| 4 | Personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 acquaintance | amod |
| 5 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spanking | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spanking | det |
| 8 | spanking | spanking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acquaintance | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 few | advmod |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 few | nmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 few | aux |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 103 Personal acquaintance with a spanking | 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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