The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 71
“Oh, yes, she may go,” said Nah-chu-rú-chu; but taking her aside, he said, “Now be sure that you refuse whatever they may propose.”
Who acts: wife, rú, you, Maidens · What happens: go, say, take, be, refuse, propose · To what, where: wife, 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 (wife, rú, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Oh | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nah | punct |
| 14 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rú | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 chu | punct |
| 16 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nah | appos |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 chu | punct |
| 18 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 rú | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 said | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taking | obj |
| 23 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 21 taking | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sure | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 sure | punct |
| 29 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 sure | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sure | cop |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | parataxis |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 refuse | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 refuse | nsubj |
| 34 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sure | ccomp |
| 35 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 propose | obj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 propose | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 propose | aux |
| 38 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 refuse | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 sure | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | may | wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nah=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | take | gerund | rú not said here | wife | aside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | rú | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | now | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | refuse in a quote | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | propose in a quote | may | 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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