The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 53
“Have you any long hairs?”--for he saw many snowbirds lighting near by.
Who acts: you, boy, many snowbirds · What happens: have, see, light · To what, where: long hairs, many snowbirds
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 (you, boy, many snowbirds), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Have | nsubj |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 hairs | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hairs | amod |
| 6 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Have | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snowbirds | amod |
| 14 | snowbirds | snowbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | lighting | light | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 snowbirds | acl |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 15 lighting | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 near | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | any long hairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | boy | many snowbirds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowbird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | light | gerund | many snowbirds not said here | near property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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