The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 4
It was high time to be thinking of new soles, for already there was a wee hole in the bottom of each of his moccasins; and as for Benito, his shy little grandson, _his_ toes were all abroad.
Who acts: hair, Benito · What happens: be, think · To what, where: high time, bottom
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 (hair, Benito), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 thinking | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thinking | aux |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soles | case |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soles | amod |
| 10 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thinking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hole | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 was | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hole | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 17 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hole | amod |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinking | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bottom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottom | det |
| 21 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hole | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 each | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 bottom | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moccasins | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 26 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 each | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 abroad | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 abroad | cc |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 Benito | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Benito | case |
| 31 | Benito | Benito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 abroad | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grandson | punct |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 34 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 grandson | amod |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 grandson | amod |
| 36 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Benito | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grandson | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 toes | punct |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 toes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 toes | punct |
| 41 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 abroad | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 abroad | cop |
| 43 | all | all | ADV | _ | 44 abroad | advmod |
| 44 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 4 time | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hair | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive · progressive | of new soles | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the bottom of each of Patricio's moccasins | for a wee hole | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Benito | Patricio's toes nsubj; abroad, all property | 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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