The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 8
Perhaps he has a pain; for he has been crying ever since the beginning of the world--as they told us in the story of the Fawns and the She-Wolf.”
Who acts: Tata, wháy · What happens: have, cry, tell, begin · To what, where: pain, us, story, world · 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 (Tata, wháy), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pain | det |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 crying | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 crying | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crying | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 crying | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 crying | aux |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 has | advcl |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 crying | advmod |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 beginning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beginning | det |
| 15 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beginning | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 told | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 story | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Fawns | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fawns | det |
| 29 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 story | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Wolf | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Wolf | det |
| 32 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 Wolf | nsubj |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Wolf | punct |
| 34 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Fawns | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Tata | a pain | perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present · perfect · progressive | Tata | since the beginning of the world; ever | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | wháy | us | the story of the Fawns and the Wolf Francisco | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||
| 4 | begin | the world | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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