The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 43
“_Mah-kóo-oon_ [grandchildren], what are you doing here, where no one ever thinks to come?”
Who acts: you, one · What happens: do, think, come · To what, where: kóo oon · 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 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 (you, one), 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 | _ | 7 oon | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mah | punct |
| 3 | Mah | Mah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kóo | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mah | punct |
| 5 | kóo | kóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oon | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kóo | punct |
| 7 | oon | oon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandchildren | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandchildren | punct |
| 10 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 oon | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandchildren | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 doing | obj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 oon | conj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 doing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinks | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 thinks | advmod |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thinks | nsubj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 thinks | advmod |
| 23 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thinks | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 oon | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 oon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | kóo oon | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | no one | ever | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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