The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 28
“That is the very reason,” says withered Diego.
Who acts: That, withered Diego · What happens: be, say, wither · To what, where: reason · 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, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, withered Diego), 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 | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 reason | advmod |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Diego | amod |
| 11 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | withered Diego | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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