The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 50
Here we have been grinding our meal four days and still it will not stick, and you we did not tell till to-day.
Who acts: we, meal, you · What happens: grind, not stick, not tell · To what, where: meal · 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 (we, meal, you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 grinding | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grinding | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grinding | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grinding | aux |
| 5 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 meal | nmod:poss |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grinding | obj |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grinding | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stick | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 stick | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stick | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stick | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stick | advmod |
| 15 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 days | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tell | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 tell | advmod |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grinding | conj |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grinding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | present · perfect · progressive | we | our meal | here | day | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||
| 2 | not stick | future | meal | still | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | you | day | we nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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