The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 34

But his wife said: “But before you cut him up, get me the liver, for I am very hungry”--and the liver is that which all the foxes like best.

Who acts: wife, you, liver · What happens: say, cut up, get, be · To what, where: man, liver, wife · 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 (wife, you, liver), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
7	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 get	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 liver	det
17	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hungry	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 hungry	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hungry	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hungry	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 hungry	advmod
23	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	parataxis
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 hungry	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 which	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 which	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 liver	det
28	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 which	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 which	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 which	mark
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 said	ccomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 foxes	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 foxes	det
34	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 which	nsubj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 best	case
36	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 foxes	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cut up in a quote	present	you	man			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
3	get in a quote	infinitive		the liver	man's wife = wife		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary liver=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	man's wife = wife			hungry property	tree rules
5	is a	present	the liver			all foxes nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 34