The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 9
With such a fate in prospect, you may be sure that the roundabout invitation thus conveyed is never declined.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, convey, not decline · To what, where: roundabout invitation
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 fate | case |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 fate | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fate | det |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sure | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 prospect | case |
| 6 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fate | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fate | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 declined | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 invitation | det |
| 14 | roundabout | roundabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 invitation | compound |
| 15 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 declined | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 conveyed | advmod |
| 17 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 invitation | acl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 declined | aux:pass |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 declined | advmod |
| 20 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | you | with such fate in prospect; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convey | participle | the roundabout invitation not said here | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not decline | present · passive | the roundabout invitation | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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