The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 40
“Then,” said the boy, straightway, “if that is so, I will take the heart of a man [that is, be brave] and go and get the ice for my little mother.”
Who acts: boy, that, man · What happens: say, be, take, go, get · To what, where: heart, man, ice · 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 (boy, that, man), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 straightway | punct |
| 9 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 so | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 take | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 so | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heart | det |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | nmod |
| 25 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 is | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 is | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brave | punct |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 brave | cop |
| 30 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 take | parataxis |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 brave | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 take | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 get | cc |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ice | det |
| 37 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 mother | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 mother | amod |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the boy and straightway | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | the boy and straightway = boy | the heart of a man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a man | a man not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | brave property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | the boy and straightway = boy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get in a quote | infinitive | the boy and straightway = boy not said here | the ice | for my little mother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ice=Theme for mother=Beneficiary |
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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