The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 7
“Locust-friend,” said he, “come teach me that song, so that I can soothe my children to sleep.”
Who acts: Locust friend, friend · What happens: say, come, teach, soothe, sleep · To what, where: song, Locust friend, children · 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 (Locust friend, friend), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | Locust | Locust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Locust | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 teach | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 song | mark |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teach | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soothe | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 soothe | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 soothe | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 soothe | aux |
| 21 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 soothe | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 soothe | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Locust friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | friend not said here | song | Locust friend = friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | soothe in a quote | can | Locust friend = friend | my children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | Locust friend = friend not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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