The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 59
Your _tata_ has sent you for the skin of the oak, but you do not know the oak he means.
Who acts: you, trouble · What happens: send, not know, mean · To what, where: _, you, oak
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 (you, trouble), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 _ | nmod:poss |
| 2 | _ | _ | X | _ | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | tata | tata | X | _ | 2 _ | goeswith |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | iobj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 oak | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oak | det |
| 13 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oak | det |
| 21 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 means | nsubj |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 oak | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | Your _ | you | for the skin of the oak | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination you=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | the oak | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | trouble | the oak not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=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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