The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 41

It was, of course, rather rough on the Ogres, who began to find all their belts most distressfully loose; but no one seemed to consider their feelings.

Who acts: baby, Ogres, one · What happens: be, begin, find, seem, consider · To what, where: Ogres, belts, feelings

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 (baby, Ogres, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rough	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rough	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rough	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	8 rough	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rough	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 rough	advmod
8	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Ogres	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ogres	det
11	Ogres	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 rough	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Ogres	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 belts	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 belts	nmod:poss
19	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 find	obj
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 distressfully	advmod
21	distressfully	distressfully	ADV	_	22 loose	advmod
22	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 belts	amod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rough	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 consider	mark
29	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feelings	nmod:poss
31	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 consider	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	baby		the Ogres	rough property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the Ogres				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	find	to-infinitive	the Ogres not said here	Ogres's belts			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Topic
4	seem	past	no one				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	consider	to-infinitive	no one not said here	Ogres's feelings			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent feeling=Attribute

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 41