The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 77
There you could look and look, and see the wood through them--for the Trues, to help them, made them invisible.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, help, make · To what, where: wood, woods
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 look | expl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 look | cc |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Trues | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Trues | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Trues | det |
| 17 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | could | you | there | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | the wood | through woods = wood; for the Trues | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | woods = wood | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | make | past | woods = wood | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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