The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 30
I think now I will take her out, to see if she will not sing for me.”
Who acts: I, Locust · What happens: think, take out, see, not sing · To what, where: Locust · 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 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 think | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 sing | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sing | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sing | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sing | advmod |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | future | I | Locust | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen | future | Locust | for me | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for 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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