The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 85
Then he was brought again before the Trues, who said: “Son, you have proved yourself a True Believer, and now you shall have what you seek.”
Who acts: Trues, you · What happens: bring, say, prove, have, seek · To what, where: boy, Trues, Son · 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 (Trues, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Trues | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Trues | det |
| 8 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Trues | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 proved | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 proved | punct |
| 14 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Son | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 proved | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 proved | aux |
| 18 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 proved | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Believer | det |
| 21 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Believer | amod |
| 22 | Believer | Believer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 proved | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 have | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 proved | conj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 seek | obj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 seek | nsubj |
| 31 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | boy | the Trues | then; again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before true=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Trues | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Son | you nsubj; yourself obj; a True Believer obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | now | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | present | you | what obj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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