The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 91
What a pretty _faja_!” cried the false friend.
What happens: cry · To what, where: false friend
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: 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 faja | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 faja | det |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 faja | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 faja | punct |
| 5 | faja | faja | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 cried | dep |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 faja | punct |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 faja | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 faja | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the false friend | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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