The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 48
This dear old man--news of his death has come to me as I write this very chapter--was a remarkable character.
Who acts: This, dear old man, I, child · What happens: man, come, write, be, die · To what, where: me, chapter, remarkable character
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 (This, dear old man, I, child), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | nsubj |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 write | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 write | nsubj |
| 16 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 character | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 chapter | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 chapter | advmod |
| 19 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 write | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 write | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 character | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 character | det |
| 23 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 character | amod |
| 24 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man | This | news of child's death conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | dear old man and news of child's death | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | write | present | I | this chapter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a remarkable character | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die | child | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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