The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 72
“To-morrow, grandchildren, we will play _Nah-oo-p’ah-chée_ (hide-and-seek), and the one who is found three times by the other shall pay his life.”
Who acts: we, one · What happens: play, find, pay · To what, where: p’ah chée _, one, life
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 (we, 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 | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandchildren | punct |
| 6 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 morrow | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 play | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 play | aux |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 _ | punct |
| 12 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 19 _ | discourse |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nah | punct |
| 14 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 p’ah | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 oo | punct |
| 16 | p’ah | p'ah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 _ | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 p’ah | punct |
| 18 | chée | chée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 _ | compound |
| 19 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 hide | punct |
| 21 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 _ | appos |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 seek | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seek | cc |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hide | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 hide | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pay | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pay | nsubj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 found | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 found | aux:pass |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 one | acl:relcl |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 times | nummod |
| 35 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 found | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 other | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 found | obl |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 pay | aux |
| 40 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 life | nmod:poss |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pay | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | future | we | p’ah chée _ | to morrow and grandchildren | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Theme | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · passive | the one | time | by the other | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | pay in a quote | shall | the one | man's life | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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