The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 96
“I gain it,” he answered, “by going about among the animals who are sick, and curing them.”
Who acts: T’hoo, animals · What happens: gain, answer, go about, be, cure · To what, where: life, animals · 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 (T’hoo, animals), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gain | nsubj |
| 3 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gain | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gain | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gain | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 animals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sick | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sick | cop |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 curing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 curing | cc |
| 22 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 curing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain in a quote | present | T’hoo = t'hoo | life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | T’hoo = t'hoo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go about in a quote | gerund | among the animals; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the animals | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cure in a quote | gerund | T’hoo = t'hoo not said here | animals = animal | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source |
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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