The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 20
Let us put out one of his eyes, that there may be darkness for half the time, and then his children can rest.”
Who acts: you, us, children · What happens: let, put out, be, rest · To what, where: us, one, darkness
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother 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, us, children), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 darkness | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 be | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 be | expl |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 darkness | cop |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rest | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rest | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 rest | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rest | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 rest | aux |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put out | infinitive | us not said here | one of sleep's eyes | time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | |||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | darkness | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rest | can | sleep's children | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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