The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 53
Certainly the job was never so well done before.
What happens: not do · To what, where: job
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: 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 done | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 job | det |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 done | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 done | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 done | advmod |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 done | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · passive | the job | before, certainly, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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