The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 58
He was bright and chipper as a young blackbird, and it was only of late that a touch of rheumatism took the youth out of his legs.
Who acts: Desiderio, face, touch · What happens: be, take, touch · To what, where: youth, legs, rheumatism
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 (Desiderio, face, touch), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bright | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bright | cop |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chipper | cc |
| 5 | chipper | chipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bright | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 blackbird | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blackbird | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blackbird | amod |
| 9 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chipper | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 late | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 late | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 late | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 late | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 late | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 late | case |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bright | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 took | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 touch | det |
| 19 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rheumatism | case |
| 21 | rheumatism | rheumatism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | nmod |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 late | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 legs | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 legs | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 legs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Desiderio | chipper as a young blackbird conj; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | face | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a touch of rheumatism | the youth | Desiderio's legs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme out leg=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | touch | rheumatism | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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