The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 87
And soon came the false friend, making as if he had never bewitched him nor had known whither he disappeared.
Who acts: false friend, friend, rain · What happens: come, make, not bewitch, know, disappear · To what, where: rain · 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 (false friend, friend, rain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 bewitched | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 bewitched | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bewitched | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bewitched | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 bewitched | advmod |
| 14 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 making | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bewitched | obj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 known | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 bewitched | conj |
| 19 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 disappeared | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the false friend | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the false friend not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | not bewitch | past · perfect | friend | rain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | past · perfect | friend not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | disappear | past | rain | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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