The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 16
“But do not so,” said the young man, giving her an ear of green corn.
Who acts: young man · What happens: do, say, give · To what, where: ear, stranger · 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 North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 do | cc |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 so | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 giving | punct |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 giving | iobj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ear | det |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 corn | amod |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ear | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the young man not said here | a ear of green corn | stranger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ear=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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