The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 25
I will ask just once more; and if you do not show me the song, I’ll swallow you!”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ask, not show, swallow · To what, where: song, me, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 once | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 ask | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 swallow | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swallow | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 show | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 show | advmod |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 swallow | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 show | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 swallow | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 swallow | aux |
| 20 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 swallow | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 swallow | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not show a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | the song | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient song=Topic | |||
| 3 | swallow | future | I | you | vn gobble-39.3 «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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