The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 55
Why, Desiderio could have furnished an army of old men with wrinkles!
What happens: furnish · To what, where: Desiderio
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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 furnished | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | Desiderio | Desiderio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 furnished | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 furnished | aux |
| 6 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furnished | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 army | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wrinkles | case |
| 13 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | could · perfect · passive | Desiderio | a army of old men with wrinkles obj | tree rules |
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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