The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 82

The Trues said: “Young men, if you are men, sit down and we will protect you.”

Who acts: Trues, you, we · What happens: say, be, sit down, protect · To what, where: Young men, men, 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 (Trues, you, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Trues	det
2	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct
6	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 men	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 men	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 men	cop
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 men	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sit	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 protect	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 protect	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 protect	aux
19	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 protect	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Trues	Young men and men		tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	men		tree rules
3	sit down in a quote	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	protect in a quote	future	we		you	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 82