The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 14
But if I ask one of my brown old _compadres_ here, where he got the arrow-head which he wears as a charm about his wrinkled neck, he will not tell me any such story as that.
Who acts: I, work, arrow head · What happens: ask, get, wear, wrinkle, not tell · To what, where: one, arrow head, such story, me · 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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, work, arrow head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 ask | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 compadres | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 compadres | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 compadres | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 compadres | amod |
| 10 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compadres | compound |
| 11 | compadres | compadre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ask | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrow | punct |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 wears | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wears | nsubj |
| 24 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 head | acl:relcl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 charm | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 charm | det |
| 27 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wears | obl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 neck | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neck | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 neck | amod |
| 31 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wears | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 tell | advmod |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | iobj |
| 38 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 story | det |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 story | amod |
| 40 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 that | case |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 story | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | one of my brown old _ compadres | here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get | past | work | the arrow head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | the arrow head | as a charm; about work's wrinkled neck; work nsubj | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | future | work | any such story | me | as that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |
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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