The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 150
You must not speak of that, but invite them to go out and play a game with you.”
Who acts: You, Maidens · What happens: not speak, invite, go out, play · To what, where: Maidens, game · 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 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, Maidens), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 speak | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invite | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 invite | cc |
| 9 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 speak | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invite | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invite | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 play | cc |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invite | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 game | det |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 play | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | must | You | of that | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | invite | infinitive | You not said here | Maidens = maiden | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Maidens = maiden not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | You not said here | a game | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with you=Co-Agent |
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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