The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 33
He is not nearly so wrinkled as Diego, but he is very, very old, and his voice is a little tremulous at first.
Who acts: Antonio, voice · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: little tremulous
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 (Antonio, voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrinkled | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrinkled | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wrinkled | advmod |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 wrinkled | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wrinkled | advmod |
| 6 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Diego | case |
| 8 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wrinkled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 old | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wrinkled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tremulous | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tremulous | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tremulous | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tremulous | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tremulous | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tremulous | amod |
| 24 | tremulous | tremulous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 old | appos |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 first | case |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 tremulous | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Antonio | as Diego; nearly, wrinkle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Antonio | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Antonio's voice | a little tremulous | tree rules |
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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