The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 114
“And why--” began ’Tonio.
What happens: begin · To what, where: Tonio
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 why | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 began | advmod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tonio | punct |
| 8 | Tonio | Tonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Tonio | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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