The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 64
“Moon-wife, beware of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, for they have the evil road and will try to do you harm, but you must always refuse to do whatever they propose.”
Who acts: Moon wife, Maidens, you · What happens: beware, have, try, do, harm, refuse · To what, where: evil road, you, whatever · 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 (Moon wife, Maidens, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beware | punct |
| 2 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moon | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beware | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Maidens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maidens | det |
| 9 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Maidens | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yellow | punct |
| 11 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Maidens | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Corn | punct |
| 13 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beware | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beware | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 try | cc |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 try | aux |
| 23 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 try | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | iobj |
| 27 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 do | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 refuse | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 refuse | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 refuse | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 refuse | aux |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 refuse | advmod |
| 33 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beware | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 refuse | xcomp |
| 36 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 propose | obj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 propose | nsubj |
| 38 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beware | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware in a quote | infinitive | Moon wife | of the Yellow Corn Maidens | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Maidens = maiden | the evil road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | future | Maidens = maiden not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Maidens = maiden not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | harm in a quote | infinitive | Maidens = maiden not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | refuse in a quote | must | you | always property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | propose in a quote | present | Maidens = maiden | whatever | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=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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