The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 25
Take my eyes, for my children, but do not blind the Sun!
Who acts: you · What happens: take, do · To what, where: eyes, blind Sun
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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 blind | advmod |
| 12 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sun | amod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my eyes | for my children | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent eye=Theme for child=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | the blind Sun | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Eventuality |
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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