The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 57
The use of books is not only to tell, but to preserve; not only for to-day, but for ever.
Who acts: use · What happens: not be, preserve, use · To what, where: books · 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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 use | det |
| 2 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 books | case |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 tell | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 preserve | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 preserve | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 preserve | mark |
| 13 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 day | advmod |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 day | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ever | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ever | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 tell | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be speech: assert | present | the use of books | day | tell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | preserve not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | use | books | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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