The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 45
“Our parents would never let us come south; but to-day we came to see if the rabbits are more numerous here than above.”
Who acts: parents, us, we, rabbits · What happens: not let, come, see, be · To what, where: us
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, us, we, rabbits), 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | advcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 numerous | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rabbits | det |
| 21 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 numerous | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 numerous | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 numerous | advmod |
| 24 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | ccomp |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 numerous | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 here | fixed |
| 27 | above | above | ADV | _ | 25 here | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | would | Our parents | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | south property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | we | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the rabbits | here | numerous property | tree rules |
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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