The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 26
It is better that I eat you now, before you are tired.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 eat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 tired | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 better | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | I | you | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | you | tired 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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