The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 25
If you don’t catch me the Ch’úm-nin that cut my hair, I’ll eat _you_!”
Who acts: you, Ch’úm nin, I · What happens: not catch, cut, eat · To what, where: Ch’úm nin, me, hair, you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Feathered Barbers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ch’úm nin, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 catch | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 catch | advmod |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eat | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 catch | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nin | det |
| 8 | Ch’úm | Ch'úm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 nin | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ch’úm | punct |
| 10 | nin | nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 nin | acl:relcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | obj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | the Ch’úm nin | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary nin=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | past | the Ch’úm nin | my hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | ||||
| 3 | eat | future | I | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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