The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 125
“Well, then, I will tell a story which they showed me in Taos[30] last year,” said the old man.
Who acts: old man, story · What happens: tell, show, say · To what, where: story, old man · 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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, story), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 tell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 story | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Taos | case |
| 16 | Taos | Taos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obl |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 30 | punct |
| 18 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Taos | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 30 | punct |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 year | amod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the old man = man | a story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | past | a story | the old man = man | year | in Taos; tail nsubj | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Patient in taos=Topic | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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