The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 39
In that time it was that there was so much toothache among the animals that the Mountain Lion, Commander of Beasts, called a council to see what should be done.
Who acts: toothache · What happens: be, call, see, do · To what, where: much toothache, Mountain Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (toothache), 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toothache | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 toothache | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 toothache | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 toothache | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toothache | amod |
| 11 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 animals | det |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 toothache | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 called | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lion | det |
| 17 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lion | compound |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Commander | punct |
| 20 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lion | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Beasts | case |
| 22 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Commander | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 animals | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 council | det |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 called | advcl |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 done | obj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 done | aux:pass |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 toothache | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | toothache | much toothache | time | among the animals | tree rules | ||
| 2 | call | participle · passive | the Mountain Lion and Commander of Beasts | the animals obj; a council xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme that=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | should · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=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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