The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 60

His eyes were good to find about as much through the sights of a rifle as anybody’s; and on the whole he was worth a good deal more than I expect to be some seventy years from now.

Who acts: eyes, Desiderio, I · What happens: be, find, expect, sight · To what, where: whole, seventy years, rifle

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 (eyes, Desiderio, I), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 sights	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sights	det
12	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 much	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rifle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rifle	det
15	rifle	rifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sights	nmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 anybody	case
17	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 find	obl
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 anybody	case
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 worth	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 worth	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 whole	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 whole	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 worth	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 worth	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 worth	cop
26	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 deal	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deal	amod
29	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl:unmarked
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 worth	obj
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 expect	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 expect	nsubj
33	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 more	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	38 years	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 years	cop
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 years	det
37	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 expect	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 now	case
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 years	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Desiderio's eyes			good property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive				as anybody	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as anybody=Attribute
3	is	past	Desiderio		the whole	worth property	tree rules
4	expect	present	I				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	to-infinitive		some seventy years			tree rules
6	sight			a rifle			nom sight «cognition 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 60