The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 26
He is the father, the provider--and how shall he watch against harm, or how find us game without his bright eyes?
Who acts: eye · What happens: be, watch, find · To what, where: father, harm, us
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 (eye), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 father | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 father | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 provider | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provider | det |
| 7 | provider | provider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watch | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 watch | advmod |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 watch | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watch | nsubj |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 father | parataxis |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 harm | case |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watch | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 find | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | eye | the father and the provider | the provider conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | watch | shall | eye | harm | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against harm=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | eye not said here | us | without eye's bright eyes; game obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme game=Attribute |
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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