The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 56

I never saw him smile without fearing that some of those wrinkles were going to fall off the edge, so crowded were they at best!

Who acts: I, Desiderio, some, wrinkles · What happens: not see, smile, fear, go, fall off, be · To what, where: Desiderio, edge · 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 (I, Desiderio, some, wrinkles), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 fearing	mark
7	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 smile	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 going	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wrinkles	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 wrinkles	det
12	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 some	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fearing	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fall	mark
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 edge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 edge	det
19	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crowded	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 crowded	advmod
22	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 best	cop
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 best	nsubj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 best	case
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 crowded	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past	I	Desiderio		tree rules
2	smile	infinitive	Desiderio not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fear	gerund	Desiderio not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past · progressive	some of that wrinkles			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fall off	to-infinitive	some of that wrinkles not said here	the edge		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient edge=Extent
6	is	past	wrinkles = wrinkle		good property	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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 56