The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 68
So from that day for four days the Badger touched no food, until he was almost dead.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: food
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 (Badger), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 touched | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touched | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Badger | det |
| 9 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 touched | nsubj |
| 10 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dead | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 dead | advmod |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 touched | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the Badger | no food | day | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Badger | almost, dead property | tree rules |
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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