The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 77
(Badger-Old-Man four days Has the hunger-killing, To know, to know surely If Field-Mouse-Old-Man Has the Medicine Power.
Who acts: Badger, Field Old Man · What happens: have, know · To what, where: hunger killing, Medicine Power
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, Field Old Man), 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 | _ | 2 Badger | punct |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Has | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Badger | punct |
| 4 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Man | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Old | punct |
| 6 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Badger | conj |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Has | nsubj |
| 9 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 killing | det |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killing | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunger | punct |
| 13 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Has | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | To | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Has | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | conj |
| 20 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 19 know | advmod |
| 21 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 Has | mark |
| 22 | Field | Field | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Man | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Field | punct |
| 24 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Field | flat |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Field | punct |
| 26 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Man | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Old | punct |
| 28 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Has | nsubj |
| 29 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Power | det |
| 31 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Power | amod |
| 32 | Power | Power | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Has | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Badger and Old Man | the hunger killing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | Field Old Man | the Medicine Power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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