The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 40
When every kind that walks on the ground had met, he asked each of them if they had found no cure; but none of them knew any.
Who acts: kind, Commander, animals, none · What happens: walk, meet, ask, find, know · To what, where: ground, kind, each, cure, any
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 (kind, Commander, animals, none), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 met | mark |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kind | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | obl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 asked | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 asked | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 each | nmod |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 found | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 cure | det |
| 22 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 knew | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 knew | cc |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 28 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 none | nmod |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | parataxis |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 knew | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | every kind | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect · passive | every kind | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Commander | each of animals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | animals = animal | no cure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic | ||||
| 5 | know | past | none of animals | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=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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