The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 22
“Truly, I know not,” answered Big-ears, “but I think Too-wháy-deh stole it; for he asked me on the way to give him a cheese.
Who acts: Big ears, wháy deh, deh · What happens: not know, answer, think, steal, ask, give · To what, where: cheese, Big ears, way, deh · 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 (Big ears, wháy deh, deh), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | advcl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Big | punct |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 18 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 22 deh | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Too | punct |
| 20 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deh | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wháy | punct |
| 22 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stole | nsubj |
| 23 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stole | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 asked | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 asked | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | iobj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 give | mark |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 way | acl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cheese | det |
| 37 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present | Big ears = ear | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Big ears | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Big ears = ear | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | steal in a quote | past | wháy deh | cheese | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | deh | Big ears = ear | the way | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 6 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | deh not said here | a cheese | deh | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cheese=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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