The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 12
“Friend Big-ears, what do you carry on your back?”
Who acts: you · What happens: friend, carry · To what, where: Big, back
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Big | punct |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Friend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 carry | obj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Friend | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | friend in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Big | ears obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present · do-support | you | your back | what obj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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