The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 11
“It is better for every one to do what he knows, and not to put himself in the work of others.”
Who acts: one, friend, others · What happens: be, do, know, not put, work · To what, where: friend, work · 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 Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, friend, others), 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 | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 knows | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 put | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 work | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | every one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | friend | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not put in a quote | to-infinitive | friend | the work of others | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in work=Destination | ||||
| 5 | work in a quote | others | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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