The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 63
Desiderio was not yet too old to herd his own cattle during the season when they roam abroad; and, while thus engaged, he made a discovery which set the whole quiet village agog, though no other outsider ever heard of it.
Who acts: Desiderio, eyes, discovery, other outsider · What happens: not be, herd, roam, engage, make, set · To what, where: own cattle, discovery, whole quiet village agog
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, eyes, discovery, other outsider), 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 | Desiderio | Desiderio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 old | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 herd | mark |
| 8 | herd | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 old | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cattle | amod |
| 11 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 herd | obj |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 season | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 season | det |
| 14 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 herd | obl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 roam | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 roam | nsubj |
| 17 | roam | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 herd | advcl |
| 18 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 17 roam | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 engaged | mark |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 engaged | advmod |
| 24 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 engaged | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 discovery | det |
| 29 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 set | nsubj |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 discovery | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 agog | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 agog | amod |
| 34 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 agog | amod |
| 35 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 agog | compound |
| 36 | agog | agog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 heard | punct |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 heard | mark |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 outsider | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 outsider | amod |
| 41 | outsider | outsider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heard | nsubj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 heard | advmod |
| 43 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 heard | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Desiderio | yet | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | herd | to-infinitive | Desiderio not said here | Desiderio's own cattle | season | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient | |||
| 3 | roam | present | eyes = eye | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | engage | past | Desiderio not said here | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Desiderio | a discovery | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product | ||||
| 6 | set | past | a discovery | the whole quiet village agog | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient agog=Result | ||||
| 7 | hear | past | no other outsider | ever | of agog | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
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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