The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 11
“Locust, if you don’t teach me that song, I will eat you up!”
Who acts: Locust, Coyote · What happens: not teach, eat up · To what, where: Coyote, you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Locust, Coyote), 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 | _ | 2 Locust | punct |
| 2 | Locust | Locust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Locust | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 teach | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 teach | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 teach | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 teach | advmod |
| 8 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 teach | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 song | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 teach | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 eat | compound:prt |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not teach speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Locust | the Coyote = coyote | you nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | future | the Coyote = coyote | you | song vocative | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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