The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 17
If it were not for you, he would give me many more rabbits, but now you eat them up.”
Who acts: sight, you · What happens: not be, give, eat up · To what, where: many more rabbits, rabbits
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 you | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 you | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 you | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rabbits | amod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 rabbits | amod |
| 14 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 eat | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 eat | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 eat | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | sight | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | would | you | many more rabbits | Tái nsubj; me iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rabbit=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat up | present | you | rabbits = rabbit | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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