The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 102
Come, search for her, we pray you, if she be alive or dead.”
Who acts: you, we, friend · What happens: come, search, pray, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, friend), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 search | punct |
| 3 | search | search | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 search | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alive | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 alive | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alive | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 alive | cop |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 dead | cc |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 alive | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | search | infinitive | you not said here | for friend | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | friend | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | friend not said here | 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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