The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 61
Take these,” and he gave them two large thunder-knives, “and with these in hand go up that cañon yonder.
Who acts: you, _ · What happens: take, give, go up · To what, where: these, two large thunder knives, tortillas, cañon · 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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 knives | nummod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knives | amod |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knives | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 thunder | punct |
| 13 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knives | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 go | compound:prt |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 cañon | mark |
| 24 | cañon | cañon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | xcomp |
| 25 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | these | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | _ | two large thunder knives | tortillas = tortilla | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient knife=Theme | |||
| 3 | go up | present | cañon | with this hand; yonder property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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