The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 59
“Now, my son, it is well that you go home, for your parents are very sad, thinking you are dead.
Who acts: son, parents, you · What happens: be, think · 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 (son, parents, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 son | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | cop |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sad | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sad | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sad | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sad | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 sad | advmod |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thinking | punct |
| 22 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sad | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 dead | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dead | cop |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thinking | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my son | latter nsubj; you nsubj; go, home, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your parents | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | your parents not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | dead property | tree rules |
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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