The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 52
Here, _this_ is the way to put on wrinkles!” and that he then and there took old Desiderio for a model, and showed the journeymen wrinkle-makers a trick they never dreamed of.
Who acts: way, thing, journeymen · What happens: be, put, take, show, maker, not dream · To what, where: wrinkles, old Desiderio, trick
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 (way, thing, journeymen), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 5 _ | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 _ | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 wrinkles | case |
| 12 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 took | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 there | cc |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 then | conj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | conj |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Desiderio | amod |
| 23 | Desiderio | Desiderio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 model | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 model | det |
| 26 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 showed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 showed | cc |
| 29 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 makers | det |
| 31 | journeymen | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 makers | nsubj |
| 32 | wrinkle | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 makers | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 wrinkle | punct |
| 34 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 showed | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 trick | det |
| 36 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 makers | appos |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 dreamed | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 dreamed | advmod |
| 39 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 trick | acl:relcl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 dreamed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the way | _ this _; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the way not said here | wrinkles | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on wrinkle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | thing | old Desiderio | there | then | for a model | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent desiderio=Theme for model=Beneficiary | |
| 4 | show in a quote | past | thing not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | maker in a quote | journeymen | a trick appos | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not dream in a quote | past | journeymen = journeyman | a trick not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic |
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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