The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 61

He was a good neighbor, too; and I had few pleasanter hours than those spent in talking with this genial old shrivel, who was _muy sabio_ in all the folk-lore and wisdom of his unfathomable race; and very close-mouthed about it, too--as they all are.

Who acts: Desiderio, I, few pleasanter hours, eyes · What happens: be, have, spend, talk, shrivel, mouth · To what, where: good neighbor, muy sabio

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, I, few pleasanter hours, eyes), 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	5 neighbor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 neighbor	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neighbor	amod
5	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 too	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 neighbor	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbor	conj
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hours	amod
13	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 hours	amod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shrivel	nsubj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 hours	nmod
17	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 those	acl
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 talking	mark
19	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 spent	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 old	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 old	nsubj
22	genial	genial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 old	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 talking	obl
24	shrivel	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 had	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sabio	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sabio	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sabio	cop
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 sabio	punct
29	muy	muy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sabio	compound
30	sabio	sabio	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shrivel	ccomp
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 sabio	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	37 lore	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 lore	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lore	det
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lore	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 folk	punct
37	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 _	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wisdom	cc
39	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lore	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 race	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 race	nmod:poss
42	unfathomable	unfathomable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 race	amod
43	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wisdom	nmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 mouthed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mouthed	cc
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 close	advmod
47	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mouthed	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 close	punct
49	mouthed	mouth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 neighbor	parataxis
50	about	about	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 mouthed	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 too	punct
53	too	too	ADV	_	49 mouthed	advmod
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 are	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 are	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 are	nsubj
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 they	det
58	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 mouthed	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 neighbor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Desiderio	a good neighbor		tree rules
2	have	past	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spend	participle				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	talk	gerund			with genial old this	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with old=Co-Agent
5	shrivel	present	few pleasanter hours than those			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	past		muy sabio	who nsubj; all folk lore and wisdom of Desiderio's unfathomable race obl	tree rules
7	mouth	participle			about race	tree rules
8	does	present	eyes = eye			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	race		Desiderio			nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 61