The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 8

In the last two years I have seen one spoiled child--just one, in ten years’ acquaintance with 9000 Pueblos!

Who acts: I, ten years · What happens: see, spoil, acquaint · To what, where: one spoiled child, acquaintance

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 (I, ten years), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 child	nummod
10	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 child	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 acquaintance	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 acquaintance	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 acquaintance	nmod:poss
19	’	's	PART	_	18 years	case
20	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 9000	case
22	9000	9000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 acquaintance	nmod
23	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 9000	nmod:unmarked
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	one spoiled child	ten years's acquaintance with 9000 Pueblos	year	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	spoil	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	acquaint		ten years				nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: 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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 8