The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 87
“My wife, now I believe that Mouse-Old-Man _has_ the Power; and never again will I think _that_ way.”
Who acts: Badger, Old Man · What happens: believe, have, think · To what, where: Power, that · 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 (Badger, 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 | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believe | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 believe | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 has | mark |
| 9 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Old | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mouse | punct |
| 11 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Man | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Old | punct |
| 13 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Power | det |
| 18 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 think | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 think | advmod |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 think | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 believe | parataxis |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 think | obj |
| 28 | _ | _ | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 think | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | the Badger = badger | now | My wife parataxis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Old Man | the Power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | future | the Badger = badger | that | again; never | _ way obl:unmarked | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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