The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 62
Still, there were some things which he seemed willing to confide to me; and he always had an attentive listener.
Who acts: things, thing · What happens: be, seem, confide, have · To what, where: things, me, attentive listener
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 (things, thing), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 were | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seemed | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 confide | mark |
| 12 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 willing | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 confide | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 were | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 listener | det |
| 21 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 listener | amod |
| 22 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some things | there | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | thing | some things | willing property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute | |||
| 3 | confide speech: other | to-infinitive | thing not said here | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | thing | a attentive listener | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent listener=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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