The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 57
But if his face was _arrugada_, his brain was not.
What happens: be · To what, where: arrugada
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 arrugada | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrugada | cop |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 7 | arrugada | arrugada | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrugada | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brain | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrugada | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 not | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 brain | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrugada | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | arrugada and Desiderio's brain | Desiderio's brain conj | 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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