The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 44
“Sons, I see you want to be men; but you must prove yourselves before you are thought to be.
Who acts: Sons, you · What happens: see, want, be, prove, think · To what, where: men, yourselves, you · 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 (Sons, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sons | punct |
| 2 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sons | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 men | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 men | cop |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 want | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 prove | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 prove | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 prove | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 prove | aux |
| 15 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 16 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 prove | obj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | aux:pass |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prove | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Sons | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prove in a quote | must | you | yourselves | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present · passive | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «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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