The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 6
Perhaps if we had tails like yours, we could run straight; but now we have to hop.”
Who acts: we · What happens: have, run, hop · To what, where: tails
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 (we), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tails | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 have | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hop | mark |
| 19 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | we | tails | like yours; perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 2 | run | could | we | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | we | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hop | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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