The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 29
But if I had left the Locust alive, and bothered her long enough, she would have shown me.
Who acts: I, Locust · What happens: leave, bother, show · To what, where: Locust, me
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, Locust), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 bothered | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bothered | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Locust | det |
| 7 | Locust | Locust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bothered | cc |
| 11 | bothered | bother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bothered | obj |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 bothered | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 bothered | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shown | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shown | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 shown | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shown | aux |
| 19 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bothered | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shown | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bothered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | the Locust | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent locust=Theme | |||
| 2 | bother | past | Locust | enough, long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | show | would · perfect | Locust | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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