The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 55
So now it is for you to go again and look for the _oak_-bark.”
Who acts: ee · What happens: be, look · To what, where: bark
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 (ee), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | cop |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 oak | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oak | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 oak | punct |
| 15 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 bark | punct |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 bark | punct |
| 18 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ee | now; again | you nsubj; go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | ee not said here | bark | for the oak | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for oak=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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