The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 50

His hair was very gray, and his kindly old face such an incredible mass of wrinkles that I used to fancy Father Time himself must have said: “No, no!

Who acts: hair, I, child · What happens: be, use, fancy, say · To what, where: incredible mass, Father Time · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hair, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gray	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gray	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 gray	advmod
5	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 face	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 face	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gray	obl
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 mass	det:predet
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mass	det
14	incredible	incredible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mass	amod
15	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wrinkles	case
17	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mass	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 used	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 used	nsubj
20	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mass	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fancy	mark
22	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 used	xcomp
23	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Time	compound
24	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fancy	obj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 said	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 said	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	aux
28	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fancy	ccomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 No	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 No	punct
31	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 gray	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 No	punct
33	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	31 No	discourse
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 gray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	child's hair		child's old face obl; gray property	tree rules
2	use	past	I	such incredible mass of wrinkles		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	fancy	to-infinitive	I not said here	Father Time		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Theme clause=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	must · perfect	child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 50