The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 20
“If that is so,” said he, “why do you not come and live with me?
Who acts: that, human, you · What happens: be, say, not come, live · 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, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, human, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 live | cc |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 live | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | human | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with human | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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