The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 31
For a _buffalo_ has died out here, and we must take in some meat.”
Who acts: we · What happens: die out, take in · To what, where: meat
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 _ | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 _ | amod |
| 4 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | compound |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | aux |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 died | compound:prt |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 died | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 died | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 take | compound:prt |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 meat | det |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | present · perfect | here | for a _ buffalo _ | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for _=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in | must | we | some meat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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