The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 37
The real reason must be that they wish to save the rabbits in the south, and are afraid we would kill them all.
Who acts: parents, we · What happens: be, save, kill · To what, where: real reason, rabbits, south, parents
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reason | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reason | amod |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reason | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rabbits | det |
| 12 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 south | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 south | det |
| 15 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | conj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 afraid | ccomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | parents = parent | the real reason not said here | wish property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | the rabbits | the south | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | parents = parent not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | would | we | parents = parent | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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