The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 15
“No,” said the Burro, “I cannot give you one, for my master would blame me--since they are not mine but his, and a man of the pueblo waits for them.”
Who acts: Burro, master, Indians, man · What happens: say, not give, blame, not be, wait · To what, where: one, you, Burro · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Burro, master, Indians, man), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Burro | det |
| 7 | Burro | Burro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 give | advmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blame | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 blame | mark |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blame | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 blame | aux |
| 21 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 blame | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 mine | punct |
| 24 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 mine | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mine | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mine | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 mine | advmod |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 blame | parataxis |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 his | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mine | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 waits | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 waits | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 waits | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 pueblo | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pueblo | det |
| 37 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 man | nmod |
| 38 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 waits | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 waits | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Burro | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | can | the Burro = burro | one | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 3 | blame in a quote | would | my master | the Burro = burro | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | Indians = indian | the Burro = burro | Burro conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wait in a quote | present | a man of the pueblo | for Indians = indian | vn exist-47.1 «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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