The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 54
For three more mornings the very same thing happened; and on the fourth morning the boy told his grandfather.
Who acts: same thing, boy · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: grandfather · 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 (same thing, boy), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 mornings | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mornings | nummod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 mornings | amod |
| 4 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 happened | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 same | advmod |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 20 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | morning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the boy | COYOTE's grandfather | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient |
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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