The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 42
“Now,” said she, “you will have some trouble in getting to the house of your friend, the Eagle, for to get there you will have to climb a dreadful ladder.
Who acts: Spaniard, you, trouble · What happens: say, have, get, climb · To what, where: trouble, dreadful ladder · 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 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 (Spaniard, you, trouble), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trouble | det |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 trouble | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Eagle | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Eagle | det |
| 24 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 trouble | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 get | case |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | conj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 get | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 get | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 climb | mark |
| 34 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 have | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ladder | det |
| 36 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ladder | amod |
| 37 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 climb | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Spaniard | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | you | some trouble the Eagle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | gerund | some trouble the Eagle not said here | to the house of your friend result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | climb in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a dreadful ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=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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